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|and «the_slives_of thy sons and of thy| B.C.1 | daughters, and the_slives_of thy wives, | s, souls, and the_slives_of thy concubines ; ; 6 In that thou lovest ‘thine ~enemies, | t. those.
and (+hatest thy friends. For thou is it shast_declared this day, that thou re-| 7 tose gardest neither princes nor servants:| thatlove for this day I+perceive, that if Absalom} thee. had_lived, and all we +had_died this
day, then it had_? pleased thee well. 6. been.
7 Now therefore sarise, -go_forth, and} Tisht. ‘speak ‘comfortably unto thy servants :| ¢. to the. for I «swear by ’ the Lor», if thou 'go| heart-o not forth, there will not one with |? Jehov: 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 ay came before the king: for Israél had_}_ fled ‘every_man to his tent. $
® And all the people were at_strife throughout all the_tribes_of Israél, say- ing, “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. ‘
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, *is_dead in xbattle. Now there- fore why «4speak pe not a word of ie bringing ~the king back?”
ll And xking David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “-Speak unto the_elders_of Judah, say- ing, Why tare ye the last to bring -the king back to his house? seeing the_ speech_of all Israél sis.come to the king, even to his house. :
12 He are my brethren, pe are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then tare ye the to bring_back +the king ?
13 And tsay ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? =God *do so to me, and more also, if thou tbe not captain of the host before me con- tinually in_the_-room_of Joab.”
14 And he bowed -the_heart_of all the_imen_of Judah, even_as the heart Kaw of oneiman; so that they sent this|” word unto the king, “*Return thon,|* and all thy servants.”
15 So the king returned, and came to xJordan. And Judah came to xGilgal, 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 xking David. 17 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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18 And there »went_over a «fe tocarry_over the king’s “household, and to do ‘what he thought good. And/t. Shimei the_son_of Gera fell_down be-| i" fore the king, as he was_come_over xJordan ;
19 And said unto the king, “Let not|19. Ch. my -lord impute iniquity unto me,| § 1
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