<p class="bodytext">Now Saul&#8217;s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured.<n id="1" /> Mephibosheth was his name.p>

<p class="bodytext">So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.&#8221; So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.<n id="1" />

Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation<n id="1" /> on the earth? Their God<n id="2" /> went<n id="3" /> to claim<n id="4" /> a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land,<n id="5" /> before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.<n id="6" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then King David reached<n id="1" /> Bahurim. There a man from Saul&#8217;s extended family named Shimei son of Gera came out, yelling curses as he approached.<n id="2" />

Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married<n id="1" /> Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab&#8217;s mother.)

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wicked man<n id="1" /> named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite,<n id="2" /> happened to be there. He blew the trumpet<n id="3" /> and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;We have no share in David;p> <p class="poetry">we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse!p> <p class="poetry">Every man go home,<n id="4" /> O Israel!&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">These are the names of David&#8217;s warriors:p> <p class="bodytext">Josheb-Basshebeth, a Tahkemonite, was head of the officers.<n id="1" /> He killed eight hundred men with his spear in one battle.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was head of the three.<n id="1" /> He killed three hundred men with his spear and gained fame among the three.<n id="2" />

Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying, &#8216;Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death<n id="1" /> of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.&#8217; They want to extinguish my remaining coal,<n id="2" /> leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.&#8221;p>

That&#8217;s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled<n id="1" /> against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.&#8221; The woman said to Joab, &#8220;This very minute<n id="2" /> his head will be thrown over the wall to you!&#8221;p>