1It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."stylus2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 18:332The 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."stylusProverbs 19:12, Proverbs 16:15, Proverbs 19:12, Proverbs 16:153The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.stylus2 Samuel 17:24, Genesis 31:27, 2 Samuel 19:32, 2 Samuel 17:24, Genesis 31:274The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"stylus2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 15:305Joab 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;stylusNehemiah 9:27, Psalms 18:47, Psalms 18:48, Psalms 3:8, Nehemiah 9:276in 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.stylusActs 23:5, 2 Samuel 3:24, 2 Samuel 3:25, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 19:107Now 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."stylusProverbs 14:28, Proverbs 14:28, Genesis 34:3, Genesis 34:3, Proverbs 19:158Then 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.stylus2 Samuel 18:24, 2 Samuel 18:24, 2 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 19:39All 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.stylus2 Samuel 15:14, 2 Samuel 15:14, Genesis 3:12, Genesis 3:13, 2 Samuel 8:110Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you not speak a word of bringing the king back?"stylusJudges 18:9, 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 15:12, 2 Samuel 15:13, Hosea 8:411King 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.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 then are you the last to bring back the king?'stylus2 Samuel 5:1, 2 Samuel 5:1, Ephesians 5:30, Genesis 2:23, Judges 9:213Say 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.'"stylus2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 8:16, Ruth 1:17, 1 Kings 19:214He 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."stylusJudges 20:1, Judges 20:1, Acts 4:32, Acts 4:32, Psalms 110:215So 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.stylusJoshua 5:9, Joshua 5:9, 1 Samuel 11:14, 1 Samuel 11:15, 1 Samuel 11:1416Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down 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 16:517There 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.stylus2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:4, 2 Samuel 9:2, 2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:418A 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.stylusPsalms 81:15, Revelation 3:9, Psalms 66:3, Psalms 81:15, Revelation 3:919He 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.stylus1 Samuel 22:15, 1 Samuel 22:15, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Isaiah 43:25, Jeremiah 31:3420For 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."stylus2 Samuel 19:9, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:37, Hosea 5:3, 1 Kings 12:2521But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?"stylusExodus 22:28, Exodus 22:28, 1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 24:622David 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?"stylus1 Samuel 11:13, 1 Samuel 11:13, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 16:10, 2 Samuel 3:3923The king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." The king swore to him.stylus1 Kings 2:46, 1 Kings 2:8, 1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 2:46, 1 Kings 2:824Mephibosheth 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.stylusHebrews 13:3, Jeremiah 41:5, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 9:625It 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?"stylus2 Samuel 16:17, 2 Samuel 16:1726He 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.stylus2 Samuel 9:3, 2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 4:4, 2 Samuel 9:327He 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.stylus2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 14:20, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 16:328For 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?"stylus2 Samuel 9:13, 2 Samuel 9:13, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Kings 8:329The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land."stylusJob 19:16, Job 19:17, Proverbs 18:13, Psalms 101:5, Acts 18:1530Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house."stylus2 Samuel 1:26, Acts 20:24, Philippians 1:20, 2 Samuel 1:26, Acts 20:2431Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.stylus1 Kings 2:7, 1 Kings 2:7, Nehemiah 7:63, Ezra 2:61, 2 Samuel 17:2732Now 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.stylus1 Samuel 25:2, 1 Samuel 25:2, Proverbs 16:31, Job 1:3, Deuteronomy 34:733The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem."stylus2 Thessalonians 1:7, Luke 22:28, Luke 22:30, Matthew 25:34, Matthew 25:4034Barzillai 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?stylus1 Corinthians 7:29, James 4:14, 1 Corinthians 7:29, James 4:14, Psalms 39:535I 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?stylus2 Samuel 15:33, 2 Samuel 15:33, Ezra 2:65, Ezra 2:65, Psalms 90:1036Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?stylusLuke 6:38, Luke 6:3837Please 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."stylus1 Kings 2:7, Jeremiah 41:17, 1 Kings 2:7, Jeremiah 41:17, 2 Samuel 19:4038The 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."stylus39All 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.stylusGenesis 31:55, Genesis 31:55, Ruth 1:14, Ruth 1:14, Genesis 47:740So 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.stylus2 Samuel 19:11, 2 Samuel 19:15, Matthew 21:9, Genesis 49:10, 2 Samuel 19:1141Behold, 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?"stylusJudges 8:1, Judges 12:1, Judges 8:1, Judges 12:1, John 7:542All 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?"stylus2 Samuel 19:12, 2 Samuel 19:12, 1 Chronicles 2:3, 1 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Samuel 5:143The 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.stylusGalatians 5:20, Galatians 5:20, 2 Samuel 5:1, 2 Samuel 5:1, 1 Kings 11:30