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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Samuel 19:8-43

8So the king arose and sat in the gate. When they told all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is 1sitting in the gate,” then all the people came before the king.

Now 2Israel had fled, each to his tent. 9All the people were quarreling throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “3The king delivered us from the 4hand of our enemies and 5saved us from the 6hand of the Philistines, but now 7he has fled out of the land from Absalom. 10However, Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now then, why are you silent about bringing the king back?”

11Then King David sent to 8Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the word of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house? 12You are my brothers; 9you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’ 13Say to 10Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? 11May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be 12commander of the army before me continually 13in place of Joab.’” 14Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah 14as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.” 15The king then returned and came as far as the Jordan. And Judah came to 15Gilgal in order to go to meet the king, to bring the king across the Jordan.

16Then 16Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David. 17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, with 17Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king. 18Then they kept crossing the ford to bring over the king’s household, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan. 19So he said to the king, “18Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would 19take it to heart. 20For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, 20the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.” 21But Abishai the son of Zeruiah said, “21Should not Shimei be put to death for this, 22because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?” 22David then said, “23What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be an adversary to me? 24Should any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?” 23The king said to Shimei, “25You shall not die.” Thus the king swore to him.

24Then 26Mephibosheth the 27son of Saul came down to meet the king; and 28he had neither 29cared for his feet, nor 30trimmed his mustache, nor 31washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. 25It was when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “32Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?” 26So he answered, “O my lord, the king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ 33because your servant is lame. 27Moreover, 34he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is 35like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight. 28For 36all my father’s household was nothing but dead men before my lord the king; 37yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should 38complain anymore to the king?” 29So the king said to him, “Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have 39decided, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’” 30Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him even take it all, since my lord the king has come safely to his own house.”

31Now 40Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to 41escort him over the Jordan. 32Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had 4243sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. 33The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me and I will 44sustain you in Jerusalem with me.” 34But Barzillai said to the king, “45How long 46have I yet to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35I am 47now 48eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore 49the voice of singing men and women? 50Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king? 36Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward? 37Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. However, here is your servant 51Chimham, let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.” 38The king answered, “Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you 52require of me, I will do for you.” 39All the people crossed over the Jordan and the king crossed too. The king then 53kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place.

40Now the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah and also 54half the people of Israel 55accompanied the king. 41And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “56Why had our brothers 57the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household and all David’s men with him over the Jordan?” 42Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because 58the king is a close relative to 59us. Why then 60are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense, or has 61anything been taken for us?” 43But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, “6263We have ten parts in the king, therefore 64we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not 65our advice first to bring back 66our king?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Samuel 19:8 2 Sam 15:2; 18:24 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Samuel 19:8 2 Sam 18:17 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Samuel 19:9 2 Sam 8:1-14 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Samuel 19:9 Lit palm ↩
  5. 5. 2 Samuel 19:9 2 Sam 5:20; 8:1 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Samuel 19:9 Lit palm ↩
  7. 7. 2 Samuel 19:9 2 Sam 15:14 ↩
  8. 8. 2 Samuel 19:11 2 Sam 15:29 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Samuel 19:12 2 Sam 5:1 ↩
  10. 10. 2 Samuel 19:13 2 Sam 17:25 ↩
  11. 11. 2 Samuel 19:13 1 Kin 19:2 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Samuel 19:13 2 Sam 8:16 ↩
  13. 13. 2 Samuel 19:13 2 Sam 3:27-39; 19:5-7 ↩
  14. 14. 2 Samuel 19:14 Judg 20:1 ↩
  15. 15. 2 Samuel 19:15 Josh 5:9; 1 Sam 11:14, 15 ↩
  16. 16. 2 Samuel 19:16 2 Sam 16:5-13; 1 Kin 2:8 ↩
  17. 17. 2 Samuel 19:17 2 Sam 16:1-4; 19:26, 27 ↩
  18. 18. 2 Samuel 19:19 1 Sam 22:15; 2 Sam 16:6-8 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Samuel 19:19 Lit set ↩
  20. 20. 2 Samuel 19:20 2 Sam 16:5 ↩
  21. 21. 2 Samuel 19:21 2 Sam 16:7, 8 ↩
  22. 22. 2 Samuel 19:21 Ex 22:28 ↩
  23. 23. 2 Samuel 19:22 2 Sam 3:39; 16:9, 10 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Samuel 19:22 1 Sam 11:13 ↩
  25. 25. 2 Samuel 19:23 1 Kin 2:8 ↩
  26. 26. 2 Samuel 19:24 2 Sam 9:6-10 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Samuel 19:24 I.e. grandson ↩
  28. 28. 2 Samuel 19:24 2 Sam 12:20 ↩
  29. 29. 2 Samuel 19:24 Lit done ↩
  30. 30. 2 Samuel 19:24 Lit done ↩
  31. 31. 2 Samuel 19:24 Ex 19:10 ↩
  32. 32. 2 Samuel 19:25 2 Sam 16:17 ↩
  33. 33. 2 Samuel 19:26 2 Sam 9:3 ↩
  34. 34. 2 Samuel 19:27 2 Sam 16:3, 4 ↩
  35. 35. 2 Samuel 19:27 2 Sam 14:17, 20 ↩
  36. 36. 2 Samuel 19:28 2 Sam 21:6-9 ↩
  37. 37. 2 Samuel 19:28 2 Sam 9:7, 10, 13 ↩
  38. 38. 2 Samuel 19:28 Lit cry out ↩
  39. 39. 2 Samuel 19:29 Lit said ↩
  40. 40. 2 Samuel 19:31 2 Sam 17:27-29; 1 Kin 2:7 ↩
  41. 41. 2 Samuel 19:31 Lit send ↩
  42. 42. 2 Samuel 19:32 Or provided food for ↩
  43. 43. 2 Samuel 19:32 2 Sam 17:27-29 ↩
  44. 44. 2 Samuel 19:33 Or provide food for ↩
  45. 45. 2 Samuel 19:34 Gen 47:8 ↩
  46. 46. 2 Samuel 19:34 Lit are the days of the years of my life ↩
  47. 47. 2 Samuel 19:35 Lit today ↩
  48. 48. 2 Samuel 19:35 Ps 90:10 ↩
  49. 49. 2 Samuel 19:35 Eccl 2:8; Is 5:11, 12 ↩
  50. 50. 2 Samuel 19:35 2 Sam 15:33 ↩
  51. 51. 2 Samuel 19:37 2 Sam 19:40; 1 Kin 2:7; Jer 41:17 ↩
  52. 52. 2 Samuel 19:38 Lit choose ↩
  53. 53. 2 Samuel 19:39 Gen 31:55; Ruth 1:14; 2 Sam 14:33 ↩
  54. 54. 2 Samuel 19:40 2 Sam 19:9, 10 ↩
  55. 55. 2 Samuel 19:40 Lit crossed over with ↩
  56. 56. 2 Samuel 19:41 Judg 8:1; 12:1 ↩
  57. 57. 2 Samuel 19:41 2 Sam 19:11, 12 ↩
  58. 58. 2 Samuel 19:42 2 Sam 19:12 ↩
  59. 59. 2 Samuel 19:42 Lit me ↩
  60. 60. 2 Samuel 19:42 Lit is it hot to you ↩
  61. 61. 2 Samuel 19:42 Or a gift ↩
  62. 62. 2 Samuel 19:43 Singular in Heb ↩
  63. 63. 2 Samuel 19:43 2 Sam 5:1; 1 Kin 11:30, 31 ↩
  64. 64. 2 Samuel 19:43 Singular in Heb ↩
  65. 65. 2 Samuel 19:43 Singular in Heb ↩
  66. 66. 2 Samuel 19:43 Singular in Heb ↩

Commentaries on 2 Samuel 19

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