From: "Friends" 

CHAPTER 19
2 Samuel 19:1
1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:2
2 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. 2
Samuel 19:3
3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people
being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. 2 Samuel 19:4
4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my
son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! 2 Samuel 19:5
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;
2 Samuel 19:6
6 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. 2 Samuel 19:7
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants:
for I swear by the LORD, 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. 2 Samuel 19:8
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. 2
Samuel 19:9
9 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.
2 Samuel 19:10
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore
why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? 2 Samuel 19:11
11 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.
2 Samuel 19:12
12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye
the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel 19:13
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.
2 Samuel 19:14
14 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.
2 Samuel 19:15
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. 2 Samuel 19:16
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. 2 Samuel 19:17
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. 2 Samuel 19:18
18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and
to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before 
the king,  as he was come over  Jordan; 2 Samuel 19:19
19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither
do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord
the king went out of Jerusalem,  that the king  should take  it to his
heart.
2 Samuel 19:20
20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am
come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my
lord the king.
2 Samuel 19:21
21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be
put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed? 2 Samuel
19:22
22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death
this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king  over Israel?
2 Samuel 19:23
23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king
sware unto him.
2 Samuel 19:24
24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had
neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes,
from the day  the king  departed  until the day  he came  again in peace. 2
Samuel 19:25
25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king,
that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me,
Mephibosheth? 2 Samuel 19:26
26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy
servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to
the king; because thy servant  is lame.
2 Samuel 19:27
27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the
king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 2
Samuel 19:28
28 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king:
yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table.
What right therefore have  I yet to cry  any more unto the king? 2 Samuel
19:29
29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I
have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. 2 Samuel 19:30
30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as
my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house. 2 Samuel 19:31
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan
with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. 2 Samuel 19:32
32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had
provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very
great man.
2 Samuel 19:33
33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will
feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 19:34
34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should
go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 2 Samuel 19:35
35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and
evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink?  can I hear  any
more the voice  of singing men  and singing women?  wherefore then should
thy servant  be yet a burden  unto my lord  the king? 2 Samuel 19:36
36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why
should the king recompense it me with such a reward? 2 Samuel 19:37
37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine
own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But
behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do 
to him what shall seem good  unto thee.
2 Samuel 19:38
38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to
him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require
of me, that will I do for thee.
2 Samuel 19:39
39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over,
the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own
place. 2 Samuel 19:40
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all
the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
2 Samuel 19:41
41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the
king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have
brought the king, and his household,  and all David's  men  with him, over
Jordan?
2 Samuel 19:42
42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is
near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we
eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given  us any gift? 2 Samuel
19:43
43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten
parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then
did ye despise us, that our advice  should not be first  had in bringing
back  our king?  And the words  of the men  of Judah  were fiercer  than
the words  of the men  of Israel.
CHAPTER 20
2 Samuel 20:1
1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the
son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no
part in David,  neither have we inheritance  in the son  of Jesse:  every 
man to his tents,  O Israel.
2 Samuel 20:2
2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the
son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king,  from Jordan
even to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 20:3
3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women
his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put  them in ward,
and fed  them, but went not in  unto them. So they were shut up  unto the
day  of their death,  living  in widowhood. 2 Samuel 20:4
4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three
days, and be thou here present.
2 Samuel 20:5
5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than
the set time which he had appointed him. 2 Samuel 20:6
6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more
harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after 
him, lest he get  him fenced  cities,  and escape  us. 2 Samuel 20:7
7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to
pursue after Sheba the son  of Bichri. 2 Samuel 20:8
8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before
them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon
it a girdle with a sword  fastened  upon his loins  in the sheath  thereof;
and as he went forth  it fell out.
2 Samuel 20:9
9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took
Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. 2 Samuel 20:10
10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote
him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and
struck him not again; and he died. So Joab  and Abishai  his brother
pursued  after  Sheba  the son  of Bichri. 2 Samuel 20:11
11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab,
and he that is for David, let him go after Joab. 2 Samuel 20:12
12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the
man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the
highway into the field,  and cast  a cloth  upon him, when he saw  that
every one that came  by him stood still.
2 Samuel 20:13
13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after
Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. 2 Samuel 20:14
14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to
Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went
also after him.
2 Samuel 20:15
15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up
a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people
that were with Joab battered the wall,  to throw it down. 2 Samuel 20:16
16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you,
unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. 2 Samuel 20:17
17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And
he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine
handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
2 Samuel 20:18
18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying,
They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter. 2
Samuel 20:19
19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest
to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the
inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel 20:20
20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should
swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel 20:21
21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of
Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against
David: deliver  him only, and I will depart  from the city.  And the woman 
said unto Joab,  Behold, his head  shall be thrown  to thee over  the wall.
2 Samuel 20:22
22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off
the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a
trumpet,  and they retired  from the city,  every man  to his tent.  And
Joab  returned  to Jerusalem  unto the king. 2 Samuel 20:23
23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: 2 Samuel 20:24
24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
2 Samuel 20:25
25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: 2 Samuel 20:26
26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David. CHAPTER 21
2 Samuel 21:1
1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD  answered,  It is for
Saul, and for his bloody  house,  because he slew  the Gibeonites. 2 Samuel
21:2
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the
Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul  sought
to slay  them in his zeal  to the children  of Israel  and Judah.) 2 Samuel
21:3
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and
wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of
the LORD?
2 Samuel 21:4
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of
Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel.
And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do  for you. 2 Samuel 21:5
5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised
against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts
of Israel,
2 Samuel 21:6
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up
unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king
said, I will give  them.
2 Samuel 21:7
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul,
because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and
Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel 21:8
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she
bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons  of Michal  the
daughter  of Saul,  whom she brought up  for Adriel  the son  of Barzillai
the Meholathite:
2 Samuel 21:9
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged
them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and
were put to death in the days of harvest,  in the first  days, in the
beginning of barley  harvest.
2 Samuel 21:10
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her
upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them
out of heaven, and suffered  neither the birds  of the air  to rest  on
them by day,  nor the beasts  of the field  by night. 2 Samuel 21:11
11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of
Saul, had done.
2 Samuel 21:12
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of
Bethshan,  where the Philistines  had hanged  them, when  the Philistines
had slain  Saul  in Gilboa:
2 Samuel 21:13
13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. 2
Samuel 21:14
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of
Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed
all that the king  commanded.  And after  that God  was intreated  for the
land.
2 Samuel 21:15
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went
down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and
David waxed faint.
2 Samuel 21:16
16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose
spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded
with a new sword, thought  to have slain  David. 2 Samuel 21:17
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine,
and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go
no more out with us to battle,  that thou quench  not the light  of Israel.
2 Samuel 21:18
18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the
Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of
the sons of the giant.
2 Samuel 21:19
19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan
the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the
Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's  beam. 2 Samuel 21:20
20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature,
that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and
twenty in number;  and he also was born  to the giant. 2 Samuel 21:21
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of
David slew him.
2 Samuel 21:22
22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants.


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