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and all the people that
were
with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there
lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled
his
ass, and arose,
and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and
died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
24
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom
passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
25
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s
son, whose name
was
Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to
Zeruiah Joab’s mother.
26
So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
27
And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of
Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo- debar, and Barzillai the
Gileadite of Rogelim,
28
Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and
flour, and parched
corn,
and beans, and lentiles, and parched
pulse,
29
And honey, and butter, and
sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that
were
with him, to eat: for they said,
The people
is
hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 18
And David numbered the people that
were
with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of
hundreds over them.
2
And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and
a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the
hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself
also.
3
But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for
us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now
thou art
worth ten thousand of us: therefore
now
it is
better that thou succour us out of the city.
4
And the king said unto them, What seemeth
you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds
and by thousands.
5
And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
Deal
gently for
my sake with the young man,
even
with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all
the captains charge concerning Absalom.
6
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
7
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great
slaughter that day of twenty thousand
men.
8
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all
the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went
under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up
between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that
was
under him went away.
10
And a certain
man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
11
And Joab said
unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest
him,
and why didst thou not smite him there
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