1It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."

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2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:33

2The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son."

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Proverbs 19:12, Proverbs 16:15, Proverbs 19:12, Proverbs 16:15

3The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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2 Samuel 17:24, Genesis 31:27, 2 Samuel 19:32, 2 Samuel 17:24, Genesis 31:27

4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"

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2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 15:30

5Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

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Nehemiah 9:27, Psalms 18:47, Psalms 18:48, Psalms 3:8, Nehemiah 9:27

6in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

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Acts 23:5, 2 Samuel 3:24, 2 Samuel 3:25, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 19:10

7Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

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Proverbs 14:28, Proverbs 14:28, Genesis 34:3, Genesis 34:3, Proverbs 19:15

8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

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2 Samuel 18:24, 2 Samuel 18:24, 2 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 19:3

9All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

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2 Samuel 15:14, 2 Samuel 15:14, Genesis 3:12, Genesis 3:13, 2 Samuel 8:1

10Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you not speak a word of bringing the king back?"

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Judges 18:9, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 15:12, 2 Samuel 15:13, Hosea 8:4

11King David sent to Zadok and to 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 speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

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2 Samuel 15:29, 2 Samuel 15:29, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Matthew 5:16, 2 Thessalonians 3:9

12You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

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2 Samuel 5:1, 2 Samuel 5:1, Ephesians 5:30, Genesis 2:23, Judges 9:2

13Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"

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2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 8:16, Ruth 1:17, 1 Kings 19:2

14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants."

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Judges 20:1, Judges 20:1, Acts 4:32, Acts 4:32, Psalms 110:2

15So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

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Joshua 5:9, Joshua 5:9, 1 Samuel 11:14, 1 Samuel 11:15, 1 Samuel 11:14

16Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

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1 Kings 2:8, 1 Kings 2:8, 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:13, 2 Samuel 16:5

17There 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 through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

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2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:4, 2 Samuel 9:2, 2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:4

18A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.

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Psalms 81:15, Revelation 3:9, Psalms 66:3, Psalms 81:15, Revelation 3:9

19He said to the king, "Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, nor remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

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1 Samuel 22:15, 1 Samuel 22:15, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Isaiah 43:25, Jeremiah 31:34

20For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."

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2 Samuel 19:9, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:37, Hosea 5:3, 1 Kings 12:25

21But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?"

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Exodus 22:28, Exodus 22:28, 1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 24:6

22David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to 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?"

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1 Samuel 11:13, 1 Samuel 11:13, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 3:39

23The king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." The king swore to him.

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1 Kings 2:46, 1 Kings 2:8, 1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 2:46, 1 Kings 2:8

24Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

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Hebrews 13:3, Jeremiah 41:5, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 9:6

25It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?"

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2 Samuel 16:17, 2 Samuel 16:17

26He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

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2 Samuel 9:3, 2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 4:4, 2 Samuel 9:3

27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

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2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 16:3

28For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"

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2 Samuel 9:13, 2 Samuel 9:13, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Kings 8:3

29The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land."

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Job 19:16, Job 19:17, Proverbs 18:13, Psalms 101:5, Acts 18:15

30Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house."

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2 Samuel 1:26, Acts 20:24, Philippians 1:20, 2 Samuel 1:26, Acts 20:24

31Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

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1 Kings 2:7, 1 Kings 2:7, Nehemiah 7:63, Ezra 2:61, 2 Samuel 17:27

32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

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1 Samuel 25:2, 1 Samuel 25:2, Proverbs 16:31, Job 1:3, Deuteronomy 34:7

33The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem."

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2 Thessalonians 1:7, Luke 22:28, Luke 22:30, Matthew 25:34, Matthew 25:40

34Barzillai said to the king, "How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

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1 Corinthians 7:29, James 4:14, 1 Corinthians 7:29, James 4:14, Psalms 39:5

35I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

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2 Samuel 15:33, 2 Samuel 15:33, Ezra 2:65, Ezra 2:65, Psalms 90:10

36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

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Luke 6:38, Luke 6:38

37Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you."

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1 Kings 2:7, Jeremiah 41:17, 1 Kings 2:7, Jeremiah 41:17, 2 Samuel 19:40

38The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you."

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39All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

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Genesis 31:55, Genesis 31:55, Ruth 1:14, Ruth 1:14, Genesis 47:7

40So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

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2 Samuel 19:11, 2 Samuel 19:15, Matthew 21:9, Genesis 49:10, 2 Samuel 19:11

41Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"

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Judges 8:1, Judges 12:1, Judges 8:1, Judges 12:1, John 7:5

42All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's cost? Or has he given us any gift?"

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2 Samuel 19:12, 2 Samuel 19:12, 1 Chronicles 2:3, 1 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Samuel 5:1

43The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

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Galatians 5:20, Galatians 5:20, 2 Samuel 5:1, 2 Samuel 5:1, 1 Kings 11:30