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Text -- 2 Samuel 19:1-25 (NET)
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19:1 Joab was told , “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom .”
19:2 So the victory of that day was turned to mourning as far as all the people were concerned. For the people heard on that day , “The king is grieved over his son .”
19:3 That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle .
19:4 The king covered his face and cried out loudly , “My son , Absalom ! Absalom , my son , my son !”
19:5 So Joab visited the king at his home . He said , “Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day , as well as the lives of your sons , your daughters , your wives , and your concubines .
19:6 You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends ! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today , it would be all right with you.
19:7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to your servants . For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight ! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time !”
David Goes Back to Jerusalem
19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate . When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate , they all came before him . But the Israelite soldiers had all fled to their own homes .
19:9 All the people throughout all the tribes of Israel were arguing among themselves saying , “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies . He rescued us from the hand of the Philistines , but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom .
19:10 But Absalom , whom we anointed as our king, has died in battle . So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back ?”
19:11 Then King David sent a message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests saying , “Tell the elders of Judah , ‘Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back to his palace , when everything Israel is saying has come to the king’s attention.
19:12 You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood ! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back ?’
19:13 Say to Amasa , ‘Are you not my flesh and blood ? God will punish me severely , if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab !’”
19:14 He won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man . Then they sent word to the king saying, “Return , you and all your servants as well.”
19:15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan River . Now the people of Judah had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him cross the Jordan .
19:16 Shimei son of Gera the Benjaminite from Bahurim came down quickly with the men of Judah to meet King David .
19:17 There were a thousand men from Benjamin with him, along with Ziba the servant of Saul’s household , and with him his fifteen sons and twenty servants . They hurriedly crossed the Jordan within sight of the king .
19:18 They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate . Now after he had crossed the Jordan , Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king .
19:19 He said to the king , “Don’t think badly of me, my lord , and don’t recall the sin of your servant on the day when you, my lord the king , left Jerusalem ! Please don’t call it to mind !
19:20 For I, your servant , know that I sinned , and I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king .”
19:21 Abishai son of Zeruiah replied , “For this should not Shimei be put to death ? After all, he cursed the Lord’s anointed !”
19:22 But David said , “What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah ? You are like my enemy today ! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today ? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel ?”
19:23 The king said to Shimei , “You won’t die .” The king vowed an oath concerning this.
19:24 Now Mephibosheth , Saul’s grandson , came down to meet the king . From the day the king had left until the day he safely returned , Mephibosheth had not cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes .
19:25 When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king , the king asked him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth ?”
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NET Notes -> 2Sa 19:4; 2Sa 19:5; 2Sa 19:6; 2Sa 19:6; 2Sa 19:6; 2Sa 19:7; 2Sa 19:8; 2Sa 19:8; 2Sa 19:8; 2Sa 19:10; 2Sa 19:10; 2Sa 19:11; 2Sa 19:11; 2Sa 19:12; 2Sa 19:13; 2Sa 19:13; 2Sa 19:14; 2Sa 19:15; 2Sa 19:15; 2Sa 19:15; 2Sa 19:17; 2Sa 19:17; 2Sa 19:19; 2Sa 19:19; 2Sa 19:20; 2Sa 19:22; 2Sa 19:23; 2Sa 19:24; 2Sa 19:24; 2Sa 19:24; 2Sa 19:24; 2Sa 19:24
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NET Notes: 2Sa 19:10 The LXX includes the following words at the end of v. 11: “And what all Israel was saying came to the king’s attention.” The words a...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 19:11 The Hebrew text adds “to his house” (= palace), but the phrase, which also appears earlier in the verse, is probably accidentally repeated...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 19:14 The referent of “he” is not entirely clear: cf. NCV “David”; TEV “David’s words”; NRSV, NLT “Amasa....
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NET Notes: 2Sa 19:15 Heb “the king.” The pronoun (“him”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.
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NET Notes: 2Sa 19:19 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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