1Now it was reported to Joab that the king was weeping and mourning for his son.stylus2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:332And so the victory on that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard it said on that day, “The king is grieving over his son.”stylusProverbs 19:12, Proverbs 16:15, Proverbs 19:12, Proverbs 16:153And the people declined to enter the city on that day, in the manner that the people were accustomed to decline if they had turned and fled from battle.stylus2 Samuel 17:24, Genesis 31:27, 2 Samuel 19:32, 2 Samuel 17:24, Genesis 31:274And the king covered his head, and he was crying out in a great voice: “My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!”stylus2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 15:305Therefore, Joab, entering to the king in the house, said: “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines.stylusNehemiah 9:27, Psalms 18:47, Psalms 18:48, Psalms 3:8, Nehemiah 9:276You love those who hate you, and you hate those who love you. And you have revealed this day that you have no concern for your leaders and for your servants. And truly, I know now that if Absalom had lived, and if we all had been killed, then it would have pleased you.stylusActs 23:5, 2 Samuel 3:24, 2 Samuel 3:25, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 19:107Now then, rise up and go out, and speak so as to make amends to your servants. For I swear to you by the Lord that if you will not go forth, not even one person will be left with you this night. And this will be worse for you than all the evils that have come to you, from your youth even to the present.”stylusProverbs 14:28, Proverbs 14:28, Genesis 34:3, Genesis 34:3, Proverbs 19:158Therefore, the king rose up, and he sat at the gate. And it was announced to all the people that the king was sitting at the gate. And the entire multitude went before the king. But Israel fled to their own tents.stylus2 Samuel 18:24, 2 Samuel 18:24, 2 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 19:39And all the people were conflicted, in all the tribes of Israel, saying: “The king has freed us from the hand of our enemies. He himself saved us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he flees from the land for the sake of Absalom.stylus2 Samuel 15:14, 2 Samuel 15:14, Genesis 3:12, Genesis 3:13, 2 Samuel 8:110But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in the war. How long will you be silent, and not lead back the king?”stylusJudges 18:9, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 15:12, 2 Samuel 15:13, Hosea 8:411Then truly, king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, saying: “Speak to those greater by birth of Judah, saying: ‘Why have you arrived last to lead back the king into his house? (For the talk in all of Israel had reached the king in his house.)stylus2 Samuel 15:29, 2 Samuel 15:29, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Matthew 5:16, 2 Thessalonians 3:912You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why are you the last to lead back the king?’stylus2 Samuel 5:1, 2 Samuel 5:1, Ephesians 5:30, Genesis 2:23, Judges 9:213And say to Amasa: ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do these things, and may he add these other things, if you will not be the leader of the military in my sight, for all time, in the place of Joab.’ ”stylus2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 8:16, Ruth 1:17, 1 Kings 19:214And he inclined the heart of all the men of Judah, as if one man. And they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”stylusJudges 20:1, Judges 20:1, Acts 4:32, Acts 4:32, Psalms 110:215And the king returned. And he went as far as the Jordan, and all of Judah went as far as Gilgal, so as to meet the king, and to lead him across the Jordan.stylusJoshua 5:9, Joshua 5:9, 1 Samuel 11:14, 1 Samuel 11:15, 1 Samuel 11:1416And Shimei, the son of Gera, the son of Benjamin, from Bahurim, hurried and descended with the men of Judah to meet king David,stylus1 Kings 2:8, 1 Kings 2:8, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:13, 2 Samuel 16:517with one thousand men from Benjamin, and with Ziba, the servant from the house of Saul. And with him were his fifteen sons and twenty servants. And going into the Jordan,stylus2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:4, 2 Samuel 9:2, 2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:418they crossed the fords before the king, so that they might lead across the house of the king, and might act in accord with his order. Then, Shimei, the son of Gera, prostrating himself before the king after he had now gone across the Jordan,stylusPsalms 81:15, Revelation 3:9, Psalms 66:3, Psalms 81:15, Revelation 3:919said to him: “May you not impute to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor call to mind the injuries, of your servant in the day that you, my lord the king, departed from Jerusalem. And may you not store it up in your heart, O king.stylus1 Samuel 22:15, 1 Samuel 22:15, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Isaiah 43:25, Jeremiah 31:3420For as your servant, I acknowledge my sin. And for this reason, today, I arrive as the first from all the house of Joseph, and I descend to meet my lord the king.”stylus2 Samuel 19:9, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:37, Hosea 5:3, 1 Kings 12:2521Yet truly, Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, responding, said, “Should not Shimei, because of these words, be killed, since he cursed the Christ of the Lord?”stylusExodus 22:28, Exodus 22:28, 1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 24:622And David said: “What is it to me and to all of you, O sons of Zeruiah? Why are you acting toward me this day like Satan? Why should any man be put to death on this day in Israel? Or do you not know that today I have been made king over Israel?”stylus1 Samuel 11:13, 1 Samuel 11:13, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 3:3923And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And he swore to him.stylus1 Kings 2:46, 1 Kings 2:8, 1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 2:46, 1 Kings 2:824And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, descended to meet the king, with unwashed feet and uncut beard. And he had not washed his garments from the day that the king had departed, until the day of his return in peace.stylusHebrews 13:3, Jeremiah 41:5, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 9:625And when he had met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”stylus2 Samuel 16:17, 2 Samuel 16:1726And in response, he said: “My lord the king, my servant spurned me. And I, your servant, spoke to him so that he might saddle a donkey for me, and I might climb upon it and go with the king. For I, your servant, am lame.stylus2 Samuel 9:3, 2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 4:4, 2 Samuel 9:327Moreover, he also accused me, your servant, to you, my lord the king. But you, my lord the king, are like an Angel of God. Do whatever is pleasing to you.stylus2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 16:328For my father’s house was deserving of nothing but death before my lord the king. Yet you have placed me, your servant, among the guests of your table. Therefore, what just complaint might I have? Or what else can I cry out to the king?”stylus2 Samuel 9:13, 2 Samuel 9:13, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Kings 8:329Then the king said to him: “Why are you still speaking? What I have spoken is fixed. You and Ziba shall divide the possessions.”stylusJob 19:16, Job 19:17, Proverbs 18:13, Psalms 101:5, Acts 18:1530And Mephibosheth responded to the king, “But now let him take it all, since my lord the king has been returned peacefully into his own house.”stylus2 Samuel 1:26, Acts 20:24, Philippians 1:20, 2 Samuel 1:26, Acts 20:2431Likewise, Barzillai the Gileadite, descending from Rogelim, led the king across the Jordan, having prepared also to follow him beyond the river.stylus1 Kings 2:7, 1 Kings 2:7, Nehemiah 7:63, Ezra 2:61, 2 Samuel 17:2732Now Barzillai the Gileadite was very old, that is, eighty years old. And he provided the king with sustenance when he was staying at the encampment. For indeed, he was an exceedingly rich man.stylus1 Samuel 25:2, 1 Samuel 25:2, Proverbs 16:31, Job 1:3, Deuteronomy 34:733And so the king said to Barzillai, “Come with me, so that you may rest securely with me in Jerusalem.”stylus2 Thessalonians 1:7, Luke 22:28, Luke 22:30, Matthew 25:34, Matthew 25:4034And Barzillai said to the king: “How many days remain in the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?stylus1 Corinthians 7:29, James 4:14, 1 Corinthians 7:29, James 4:14, Psalms 39:535Today I am eighty years old. Are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? Or is food and drink able to delight your servant? Or can I still hear the voice of men and women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?stylus2 Samuel 15:33, 2 Samuel 15:33, Ezra 2:65, Ezra 2:65, Psalms 90:1036I, your servant, shall proceed a little ways from the Jordan with you. I am not in need of this recompense.stylusLuke 6:38, Luke 6:3837But I beg you that I, your servant, may be returned and may die in my own city, and may be buried beside the sepulcher of my father and my mother. But there is your servant Chimham; let him go with you, my lord the king. And do for him whatever seems good to you.”stylus1 Kings 2:7, Jeremiah 41:17, 1 Kings 2:7, Jeremiah 41:17, 2 Samuel 19:4038And so the king said to him: “Let Chimham cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever will be pleasing to you. And all that you ask of me, you shall obtain.”stylus39And when the entire people and the king had crossed over the Jordan, the king kissed Barzillai, and he blessed him. And he returned to his own place.stylusGenesis 31:55, Genesis 31:55, Ruth 1:14, Ruth 1:14, Genesis 47:740Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him. Now all the people of Judah had led the king across, but only as much as one half part of the people of Israel were there.stylus2 Samuel 19:11, 2 Samuel 19:15, Matthew 21:9, Genesis 49:10, 2 Samuel 19:1141And so, all the men of Israel, running to the king, said to him: “Why have our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you away. And why have they led the king and his house across the Jordan, and all the men of David with him?”stylusJudges 8:1, Judges 12:1, Judges 8:1, Judges 12:1, John 7:542And all the men of Judah responded to the men of Israel: “Because the king is nearer to me. Why are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten anything belonging to the king, or have any gifts been given to us?”stylus2 Samuel 19:12, 2 Samuel 19:12, 1 Chronicles 2:3, 1 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Samuel 5:143And the men of Israel responded to the men of Judah, and said: “I have the greater amount, ten parts, with the king, and so David belongs to me more so than to you. Why have you caused me injury, and why was it not announced to me first, so that I might lead back my king?” But the men of Judah answered more firmly than the men of Israel.stylusGalatians 5:20, Galatians 5:20, 2 Samuel 5:1, 2 Samuel 5:1, 1 Kings 11:30