2 Samuel 19:6-23

6in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee. For thou hast declared this dayH3117, that princes and servantsH5650 are nought unto thee: for this dayH3117 I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this dayH3117, then it had pleased thee well. 7Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servantsH5650; for I swear by Jehovah, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry a man with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now. 8Then the king aroseH6965, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, sayingH1696, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people cameH935 before the king.

NowH6258 Israel had fled every manH376 to his tent. 9And all the peopleH5971 were at strife throughout all the tribes of IsraelH3478, sayingH559, The kingH4428 delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fledH5127 out of the land from Absalom. 10And AbsalomH53, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. NowH6258 thereforeH6258 why speak ye not a word of bringing the kingH4428 back?

11And kingH4428 David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, WhyH4100 are ye the last to bringH7725 the kingH4428 backH7725 to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the kingH4428, to bringH7725 him to his house. 12Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the lastH314 to bringH935 backH7725 the kingH4428? 13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my boneH6106 and my fleshH1320? God do so to me, and more also, if thou beH1961 not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. 14And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king, sayingH559, Return thou, and all thy servants. 15So the kingH4428 returnedH7725, and came to the Jordan. And JudahH3063 came to Gilgal, to goH7971 to meet the kingH4428, to bringH7725 the kingH4428 over the Jordan.

16And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hasted and cameH935 down with the men of JudahH3063 to meet kingH4428 David. 17And there were a thousand menH376 of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sonsH1121 and his twenty servants with him; and they wentH3381 through the Jordan in the presence of the kingH4428. 18And there went over a ferry-boat to bring over the king’sH4428 householdH1004, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the sonH1121 of Gera fell down before the kingH4428, when he was come over the JordanH3383. 19And he said unto the kingH4428, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the kingH4428 went out of Jerusalem, that the kingH4428 should take it to his heart. 20For thy servantH5650 doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am comeH3318 this dayH3117 the first of all the house of Joseph to goH3318 down to meet my lordH113 the kingH4428.

21But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah’s anointed? 22And David saidH559, What have I to do with you, ye sonsH1121 of ZeruiahH6870, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be putH4191 to deathH4191 this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel? 23And the kingH4428 saidH559 unto Shimei, Thou shalt not dieH4191. And the kingH4428 sware unto him.