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And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as
he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for
thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
CHAPTER SAMUEL 19
And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
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And the victory that
day was
turned
into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king
was grieved for his son.
3
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being
ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
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But the king covered his face, and the king cried
with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
5
And Joab came into the
house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day
have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and
the lives of thy concubines;
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In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast
declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if
Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
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Now therefore
arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the L
ORD
, if thou go not
forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil
that befell thee from thy youth until now.
8
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told
unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before
the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
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And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us
out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he
is fled out of the land for Absalom.
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And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.
Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
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And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of
Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all
Israel is come to the king,
even
to his house.
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Ye
are
my brethren, ye
are
my bones and my flesh:
wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
13
And say ye to Amasa,
Art
thou not of my
bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before
me continually in the room of Joab.
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And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as
the
heart of
one man; so that they sent
this word
unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
15
So
the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct
the king over Jordan.
16
And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which
was
of Bahurim, hasted and came down
with the men of Judah to meet king David.
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And
there were
a thousand men of Benjamin with
him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with
him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
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And there went over a ferry boat to carry over
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