2 Samuel 19 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And they brought Joab word, saying, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Abessalom. ² And the victory was turned that day into mourning to all the people, for the people heard say that day, The king grieves after his son. ³ And the people stole away that day to go into the city, as people steal away when they are ashamed as they flee in the battle. ⁴ And the king hid his face: and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Abessalom! Abessalom my son! ⁵ And Joab went in to the king, into the house, and said, You have this day shamed the faces of all your servants that have delivered you this day, and [have saved] the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and of your concubines, ⁶ forasmuch as you love them that hate you, and hate them that love you; and you have this day declared, that your princes and your servants are nothing [in your sight]: for I know this day, that if Abessalom were alive, [and] all of us dead today, then it would have been right in your sight. ⁷ And now arise, and go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I have sworn by the Lord, that unless you will go forth today, there shall not a man remain with you this night: and know for yourself, this thing [will] indeed [be] evil to you beyond all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now. ⁸ Then the king arose, and sat in the gate: and all the people reported, saying, Behold, the king sits in the gate. And all the people went in before the king to the gate; for Israel had fled every man to his tent. ⁹ And all the people disputed among all the tribes of Israel, saying, King David delivered us from all our enemies, and he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines: and now he has fled from the land, and from his kingdom, and from Abessalom. ¹⁰ And Abessalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle: and now why are you⌃ silent about bringing back the king? And the word of all Israel came to the king. ¹¹ And king David sent to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Israel, saying, Why are you⌃ the last to bring back the king to his house? whereas the word of all Israel is come to the king to his house. ¹² You⌃ [are] my brethren, you⌃ [are] my bones and my flesh: why are you⌃ the last to bring back the king to his house? ¹³ And you⌃ shall say to Amessai, [Are] you not my bone and my flesh? and now God do so to me, and more also, if you shall not be commander of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. ¹⁴ And he bowed the heart of all the men of Juda as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return you, and all your servants. ¹⁵ And the king returned, and came as far as Jordan. And the men of Juda came to Galgala on their way to meet the king, to cause the king to pass over Jordan. ¹⁶ And Semei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Baurim, hasted and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David. ¹⁷ And a thousand men of Benjamin [were] with him, and Siba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons with him, and his twenty servants with him: and they went directly down to Jordan before the king, ¹⁸ and they performed the service of bringing the king over; and there went over a ferry-boat to remove the household of the king, and to do that which was right in his eyes. And Semei the son of Gera fell on his face before the king, as he went over Jordan; ¹⁹ and said to the king, Let not my lord now impute iniquity, and remember not all the iniquity of your servant in the day in which my lord went out from Jerusalem, so that the king should mind it. ²⁰ For your servant knows that I have sinned: and, behold, I am come today before all Israel and the house of Joseph, to go down and meet my lord the king. ²¹ And Abessai the son of Saruia answered and said, Shall not Semei therefore be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed? ²² And David said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia, that you⌃ as it were lie in wait against me this day? today no man in Israel shall be put to death, for I know not if I this day reign over Israel. ²³ And the king said to Semei, You shall not die: and the king swore to him. ²⁴ And Memphibosthe the son of Saul's son went down to meet the king, and had not dressed his feet, nor pared his nails, nor shaved himself, neither had he washed his garments, from the day that the king departed, until the day when he arrived in peace. ²⁵ And it came to pass when he went into Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Memphibosthe? ²⁶ And Memphibosthe said to him, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, Saddle me the ass, and I will ride upon it, and go with the king; for your servant [is] lame. ²⁷ And he has dealt deceitfully with your servant to my lord the king: but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God, and do you that which is good in your eyes. ²⁸ For all the house of my father were but as dead men before my lord the king; yet you have set your servant among them that eat at your table: and what right have I any longer even to cry to the king? ²⁹ And the king said to him, Why speak you any longer of your matters? I have said, You and Siba shall divide the land. ³⁰ And Memphibosthe said to the king, Yes, let him take all, since my lord the king has come in peace to his house. ³¹ And Berzelli the Galaadite came down from Rogellim, and crossed over Jordan with the king, that he might conduct the king over Jordan. ³² And Berzelli was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he lived in Manaim; for he was a very great man. ³³ And the king said to Berzelli, You shall go over with me, and I will nourish your old age with me in Jerusalem. ³⁴ And Berzelli 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? ³⁵ I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and therefore shall your servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king? ³⁶ Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why does the king return me this recompense? ³⁷ Let, I pray you, your servant remain, and I will die in my city, by the tomb of my father and of my mother. And, behold, your servant Chamaam shall go over with my lord the king; and do you to him as it seems good in your eyes. ³⁸ And the king said, Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do to him what is good in my sight; and whatever you shall choose at my hand, I will do for you. ³⁹ And all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Berzelli, and blessed him; and he returned to his place. ⁴⁰ And the king went over to Galgala, and Chamaam went over with him: and all the men of Juda went over with the king, and also half the people of Israel. ⁴¹ And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen you away, and caused the king and all his house to pass over Jordan, and all the men of David with him? ⁴² And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel, and said, Because the king is near of kin to us: and why were you thus angry concerning this matter? have we indeed eaten of the king's food? or has he given us a gift, or has he sent us a portion? ⁴³ And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are older than you, we have also an interest in David above you: and why have you⌃ thus insulted us, and why was not our advice taken before that of Juda, to bring back our king? And the speech of the men of Juda was sharper than the speech of the men of Israel.

⁵ And the king commanded Joab and Abessa and Ethi, saying, Spare for my sake the young man Abessalom. And all the people heard the king charging all the commanders concerning Abessalom.

¹² And the man said to Joab, Were I even to receive a thousand shekels of silver, I would not lift my hand against the king's son; for in our ears the king charged you and Abessa and Ethi, saying, Take care of the young man Abessalom for me,

¹⁴ And Joab said, I will begin this; I will not thus remain with you. And Joab took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Abessalom, while he was yet alive in the heart of the oak.

²⁰ And Joab said to him, You [shall] not [be] a messenger of glad tidings this day; you shall bear them another day; but on this day you shall bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.

³³ And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, My son Abessalom, my son, my son Abessalom; would God I had died for you, [even] I [had died] for you, Abessalom, my son, my son!

²⁵ A foolish son [is a cause of] anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

¹⁵ The son of a king is in the light of life; and they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

²⁷ Whereas if you had told me, I would have sent you away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

²⁴ And David passed over to Manaim: and Abessalom crossed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

³² And Berzelli was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he lived in Manaim; for he was a very great man.

³⁰ And David went up by the ascent of [the mount of] Olives, ascending and weeping, and had his head covered, and went barefooted: and all the people that were with him covered [every] man his head; and they went up, ascending and weeping.

²⁷ Then you gave them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to you in the time of their affliction, and you did hear them from your heaven, and in your great compassions gave them deliverers, and did save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.

⁸ Deliverance is the Lord's, and your blessing is upon your people.

²⁴ And Joab went in to the king, and said, What [is] this [that] you have done? behold, Abenner came to you; and why have you let him go, and he has departed in peace? ²⁵ Know you not the mischief of Abenner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all things that you do?

¹⁸ [He is] ungodly that says to a king, You are a transgressor, [that says] to princes, O most ungodly one.

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it. ¹⁰ Delight does not suit a fool, nor [is it seemly] if a servant should begin to rule with haughtiness.

³ And he was attached to the soul of Dina the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and he spoke kindly to the damsel.

⁴ he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. ⁵ And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever. ⁶ He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth.

⁹ The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰ The kings of Tharsis, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Saba shall offer gifts. ¹¹ And all kings shall worship him; all the Gentiles shall serve him.

¹⁸ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders. ¹⁹ And blessed is his glorious name for ever, even for ever and ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his glory. So be it, so be it. ²⁰ The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended.

¹ (130) A Song of Degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord. ² O Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

²⁸ In a populous nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of people is the ruin of a prince.

¹⁵ Cowardice possesses the effeminate [man]; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.

¹ Comfort you⌃, comfort you⌃ my people, says God.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I [will] cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.

² And Abessalom rose early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate: and it came to pass that every man who had a cause, came to the king for judgment, and Abessalom cried to him, and said to him, Of what city are you? And he said, Your servant [is] of one of the tribes of Israel.

⁴ And the king said to them, Whatsoever shall seem good in your eyes I will do. And the king stood by the side of the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

⁶ And all the people went out into the wood against Israel; and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim. ⁷ And the people of Israel fell down there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter in that day, [even] twenty thousand men. ⁸ And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land: and the wood consumed more of the people than the sword consumed among the people in that day.

¹⁷ And he took Abessalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.

²⁴ And David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up on the top of the gate of the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone before him.

³ And the people stole away that day to go into the city, as people steal away when they are ashamed as they flee in the battle.

³⁶ And the herald of the army stood at sunset, saying, Let every man go to his own city and his own land,

¹² And Juda was overthrown before Israel, and [every] man fled to his tent.

¹² And Adam said, The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate. ¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, Why have you done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

²⁴ And I said to them, If any one has golden ornaments, take them off; and they gave them me, and I cast them into the fire, and there came out this calf.

⁵⁰ [So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him, and there was no sword in the hand of David. ]

⁵ [And David went out withersoever Saul sent him, and ] [acted wisely, and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was pleasing in the eyes of all the people, and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul. ] ⁶ And there came out women in dances to meet David out of all the cities of Israel, with timbrels, and with rejoicing, and with cymbals. ⁷ And the women began [the strain], and said, Saul has struck his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

²⁵ And Saul said, Thus shall you⌃ speak to David, The king wants no gift but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the kings enemies. Now Saul thought to cast him into the hands of the Philistines.

⁵ And he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great deliverance; and all Israel saw, and rejoined: why then do you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

²⁰ And David came from Upper Breaches, and struck the Philistines there: and David said, The Lord has destroyed the hostile Philistines before me, as water is dispersed; therefore the name of that place was called Over Breaches.

¹ And it came to pass after this, that David struck the Philistines, and put them to flight, and David took the tribute from out of the hand of the Philistines. ² And David struck Moab, and measured them out with lines, having laid them down on the ground: and there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive: and Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute. ³ And David struck Adraazar the son of Raab king of Suba, as he went to extend his power to the river Euphrates. ⁴ And David took a thousand of his chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all his chariot [horses], and he reserved to himself a hundred chariots. ⁵ And Syria of Damascus comes to help Adraazar king of Suba, and David struck twenty-two thousand men belonging to the Syrian. ⁶ And David placed a garrison in Syria near Damascus, and the Syrians became servants and tributaries to David: and the Lord preserved David wherever he went. ⁷ And David took the golden bracelets which were on the servants of Adraazar king of Suba, and brought them to Jerusalem. And Susakim king of Egypt took them, when he went up to Jerusalem in the days of Roboam son of Solomon. ⁸ And king David took from Metebac, and from the choice cities of Adraazar, very much brass: with that Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the lavers, and all the furniture. ⁹ And You the king of Hemath heard that David had struck all the host of Adraazar. ¹⁰ And You sent Jedduram his son to king David, to ask him of his welfare, and to congratulate him on his fighting against Adraazar and striking him, for he was an enemy to Adraazar: and in his hands were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass. ¹¹ And these king David consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and with the gold which he consecrated out of all the cities which he conquered, ¹² out of Idumea, and out of Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalec, and from the spoils of Adraazar son of Raab king of Suba. ¹³ And David made [himself] a name: and when he returned he struck Idumea in Gebelem to [the number of] eighteen thousand. ¹⁴ And he set garrisons in Idumea, even in all Idumea: and all the Idumeans were servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.

¹⁴ And David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, Rise, and let us flee, for we have no refuge from Abessalom: make haste and go, lest he overtake us speedily, and bring evil upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.

⁹ And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, behold, [it is] very good, yet you⌃ are still: delay not to go, an to enter in to possess the land.

¹² And Abessalom sent to Achitophel the Theconite, the counsellor of David, from his city, from Gola, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong conspiracy; and the people with Abessalom were increasingly numerous. ¹³ And there came a messenger to David, saying, the heart of the men of Israel is gone after Abessalom.

⁴ They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: [of] their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.

²⁹ So Sadoc and Abiathar brought back the ark of the Lord to Jerusalem, and it continued there.

³⁵ And, behold, [there are] there with you Sadoc and Abiathar the priests; and it shall be that every word that you shall hear of the house of the king, you shall report it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests. ³⁶ Behold, [there are] there with them their two sons, Achimaas the son of Sadoc, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar; and by them you⌃ shall report to me every word which you⌃ shall hear.

²⁵ So king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he killed him, and Adonias died in that day. ²⁶ And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart you quickly to Anathoth to your farm, for you are worthy of death this day; but I will not kill you, because you have borne the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because you was afflicted in all things wherein my father was afflicted.

³⁵ And the king appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and [as for] Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.

²³ And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.

² Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Sychem, saying, Which [is] better for you, that seventy men, even all the sons of Jerobaal, should reign over you, or that one man should reign over you? and remember that I am your bone and your flesh.

¹ And all the tribes of Israel come to David to Chebron, and they said to him, Behold, we [are] your bone and your flesh.

¹⁷ And wherever you die, I will die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, [if I leave you], for death [only] shall divide between me and you.

²⁹ Let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all the house of his father; and let there not be lacking of the house of Joab one that has an issue, or a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that wants bread. ³⁰ For Joab and Abessa his brother laid wait continually for Abenner, because he killed Asael their brother at Gabaon in the battle.

¹⁶ And Joab the son of Saruia [was] over the host; and Josaphat the son of Achilud [was keeper] of the records.

²⁵ And Abessalom appointed Amessai in the room of Joab over the host. And Amessai was the son of a man whose name was Jether of Jezrael: he went in to Abigaia the daughter of Naas, the sister of Saruia the mother of Joab.

¹¹ And Joab said to the man who reported it to him, And, behold, you did see him: why did you not strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [pieces] of silver, and a girdle.

⁵ And Joab went in to the king, into the house, and said, You have this day shamed the faces of all your servants that have delivered you this day, and [have saved] the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and of your concubines, ⁶ forasmuch as you love them that hate you, and hate them that love you; and you have this day declared, that your princes and your servants are nothing [in your sight]: for I know this day, that if Abessalom were alive, [and] all of us dead today, then it would have been right in your sight. ⁷ And now arise, and go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I have sworn by the Lord, that unless you will go forth today, there shall not a man remain with you this night: and know for yourself, this thing [will] indeed [be] evil to you beyond all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.

² And Jezabel sent to Eliu, and said, If you are Eliu and I am Jezabel, God do so to me, and more also, if I do not make your life by this time to-morrow as the life of one of them.

¹⁶ And their sister [was] Saruia, and [another] Abigaia: and the sons of Saruia [were] Abisa, and Joab, and Asael, three. ¹⁷ And Abigaia bore Amessab: and the father of Amessab [was] Jothor the Ismaelite.

¹⁸ And the Spirit came upon Amasai, a captain of the thirty, and he said, Go, David, son of Jesse, you and your people, peace, peace be to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God has helped you. And David received them, and made them captains of the forces.

¹ And all the children of Israel went out, and all the congregation was gathered as one man, from Dan even to Bersabee, and in the land of Galaad, to the Lord at Massepha.

² The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all his will. ³ His work is [worthy of] thanksgiving and honor: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever.

⁹ And the Lord said to Joshua the son of Naue, On this day have I removed the reproach of Egypt from you: and he called the name of that place Galgala.

¹⁴ And Samuel spoke to the people, saying, Let us go to Galgala, and there renew the kingdom. ¹⁵ And all the people went to Galgala, and Samuel anointed Saul there to be king before the Lord in Galgala, and there he offered meat-offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord: and Samuel and all Israel rejoiced exceedingly.

⁵ And king David came to Baurim; and, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name [was] Semei the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went, ⁶ and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king. ⁷ And thus Semei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin. ⁸ The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his stead; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Abessalom your son: and, behold, you [are taken] in your mischief, because you [are] a bloody man. ⁹ And Abessa the son of Saruia said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus? ¹¹ And David said to Abessa and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came forth out of my bowels seeks my life; still more now may the son of Benjamin: let him curse, because the Lord has told him. ¹² If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day. ¹³ And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Semei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones at him, and sprinkling him with dirt.

⁸ And, behold, [there is] with you Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.

⁴ And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.

⁴ Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids; ⁵ that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

² And there was a servant of the house of Saul, and his name was Siba: and they call him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Siba? and he said, I [am] your servant.

¹⁰ And you, and your sons, and your servants, shall till the land for him; and you shall bring in bread to the son of your lord, and he shall eat bread: and Memphibosthe the son of your lord shall eat bread continually at my table. Now Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

¹ And David passed on a little way from Ros; and, behold, Siba the servant of Memphibosthe [came] to meet him; and he had a couple of asses laden, and upon them two hundred loaves, and a hundred [bunches of] raisins, and a hundred [cakes of] dates, and bottle of wine. ² And the king said to Siba, What meanest you by these? and Siba, said, The asses [are] for the household of the king to sit upon, and the loaves and the dates [are] for the young men to eat, and the wine [is] for them that are faint in the wilderness to drink. ³ And the king said, And where [is] the son of your master? and Siba said to the king, Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, To-day shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father. ⁴ And the king said to Siba, Behold, all Memphibosthe's property [is] your. And Siba did obeisance and said, My lord, O king, let me find grace in your eyes.

²⁶ And Memphibosthe said to him, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, Saddle me the ass, and I will ride upon it, and go with the king; for your servant [is] lame. ²⁷ And he has dealt deceitfully with your servant to my lord the king: but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God, and do you that which is good in your eyes.

³ Let the nations, O God, give thanks to you; let all the nations give thanks to you.

¹⁶ And Pharao hasted to call Moses and Aaron, saying, I have sinned before the Lord your God, and against you; ¹⁷ pardon therefore my sin yet this time, and pray to the Lord your God, and let him take away from me this death.

¹⁵ Have I begun today to enquire of God for him? By no means: let not the king bring a charge against his servant, and against you whole of my father's house; for your servant knew not in all these matters anything great or small.

²⁵ Let not my lord, I pray you, take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I your handmaid saw not the servants of my lord whom you did send.

²¹ And Saul said, I have sinned: turn, son David, for I will not hurt you, because my life was precious in your eyes; and today I have been foolish and have erred exceedingly.

²⁰ And Abessalom her brother said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? now then, my sister, be silent, for he is your brother: be not careful to mention this matter. So Themar lived as a widow in the house of her brother Abessalom.

³³ And now let not my lord the king take the matter to heart, saying, All the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only of them is dead.

⁵ And king David came to Baurim; and, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name [was] Semei the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went, ⁶ and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king. ⁷ And thus Semei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin. ⁸ The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his stead; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Abessalom your son: and, behold, you [are taken] in your mischief, because you [are] a bloody man. ⁹ And Abessa the son of Saruia said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus? ¹¹ And David said to Abessa and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came forth out of my bowels seeks my life; still more now may the son of Benjamin: let him curse, because the Lord has told him. ¹² If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day. ¹³ And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Semei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones at him, and sprinkling him with dirt. ¹⁴ And the king, and all the people with him, came away and refreshed themselves there.

² Praise the Lord on the harp; platy to him on a lute of ten strings.

⁸ You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for soothing will put an end to great offenses.

²⁵ I, [even] I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and your sins; and I will not remember [them].

³⁴ From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings [as] a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up.

¹⁴ But Israel having stretched out his right hand, laid it on the head of Ephraim, and he was the younger; and his left hand on the head of Manasse, [guiding] his hands crosswise.

²⁰ And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make you as Ephraim and Manasse; and he set Ephraim before Manasse.

⁵ And king David came to Baurim; and, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, and his name [was] Semei the son of Gera. He came forth and cursed as he went,

⁹ And all the people disputed among all the tribes of Israel, saying, King David delivered us from all our enemies, and he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines: and now he has fled from the land, and from his kingdom, and from Abessalom.

²⁰ And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned out of Egypt, that they sent and called him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel: and none followed the house of David except the tribe of Juda and Benjamin only.

²⁵ And Jeroboam built Sikima in mount Ephraim and lived in it, and went forth thence and built Phanuel.

²³ O you that dwell in Libanus, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon you.

¹⁵ But you, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go you⌃ not, [men of] Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord. ¹⁶ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place. ¹⁷ Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.

³ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nothing, and [then] shall they seek my face.

²⁸ You shall not revile the gods, nor speak ill of the ruler of your people.

⁶ And it came to pass after this that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the skirt of his garment.

⁹ And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless?

⁷ And thus Semei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin. ⁸ The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his stead; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Abessalom your son: and, behold, you [are taken] in your mischief, because you [are] a bloody man.

¹³ And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Semei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones at him, and sprinkling him with dirt.

¹⁰ And the son of Ader sent to him, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for foxes to all the people, even my infantry. ¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.

¹³ And Saul said, No man shall die this day, for today the Lord has wrought deliverance in Israel.

⁸ And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once [for all], and I will not strike him again.

³⁹ And that I am this day a [mere] kinsman [of his], and [as it were] a subject; but these men the sons of Saruia are too hard for me: the Lord reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness.

¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, you⌃ sons of Saruia? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why have you done thus?

⁵ And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hasting righteousness.

¹⁰ And Saul swore to her, and said, [As] the Lord lives, no injury shall come upon you on this account.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear now to me by God, that you will not kill me, and that you will not deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down upon this troop.

⁸ And, behold, [there is] with you Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword. ⁹ But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

⁶ And Memphibosthe the son of Jonathan the son of Saul comes to the king David, and he fell upon his face and did obeisance to him: and David said to him, Memphibosthe: and he said, Behold your servant. ⁷ And David said to him, Fear not, for I will surely deal mercifully with you for the sake of Jonathan your father, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul the father of your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually. ⁸ And Memphibosthe did obeisance, and said, Who am I your servant, that you have looked upon a dead dog like me? ⁹ And the king called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him, All that belonged to Saul and to all his house have I given to the son of your lord. ¹⁰ And you, and your sons, and your servants, shall till the land for him; and you shall bring in bread to the son of your lord, and he shall eat bread: and Memphibosthe the son of your lord shall eat bread continually at my table. Now Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

³ And the king said, And where [is] the son of your master? and Siba said to the king, Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, To-day shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father.

² Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: there shall you⌃ go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl you⌃: baldness shall be on every head, [and] all arms [shall be] wounded.

⁵ You shall die in peace: and as they wept for your fathers that reigned before you, they shall weep also for you, [saying], Ah lord! and they shall lament for you down to the grave: for I have spoken the word, said the Lord.

¹⁷ And Abessalom said to Chusi, [Is] this your kindness to your friend? why went you not forth with your friend?

⁴ And Jonathan Saul's son [had] a son lame of his feet, five years old, and he was [in the way] when the news of Saul and Jonathan his son came from Jezrael, and his nurse took him up, and fled; and it came to pass as he hasted and retreated, that he fell, and was lamed. And his name [was] Memphibosthe.

³ And the king said, Is there yet a man left of the house of Saul, that I may act towards him with the mercy of God? and Siba said to the king, There is yet a son of Jonathan, lame [of] his feet.

² And the king said to Siba, What meanest you by these? and Siba, said, The asses [are] for the household of the king to sit upon, and the loaves and the dates [are] for the young men to eat, and the wine [is] for them that are faint in the wilderness to drink. ³ And the king said, And where [is] the son of your master? and Siba said to the king, Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, To-day shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father.

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

⁹ And Anchus answered David, I know that you [are] good in my eyes, but the lords of the Philistines say, He shall not come with us to the war.

¹⁷ And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious, —[well]: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, to hear good and evil: and the Lord your God shall be with you.

²⁰ In order that this form of speech might come about [it was] that your servant Joab has framed this matter: and my lord is wise as [is] the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

³ On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them.

⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

⁴ Beware you⌃ each of his neighbor, and trust you⌃ not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

¹⁰ Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which you have wrought with your servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps.

¹⁶ And this thing [is] not good which you have done. [As] the Lord lives, you⌃ are worthy of death, you⌃ who guard your lord the king, the anointed of the Lord: and now behold, I pray you, the spear of the king, and the cruse of water: where are the articles that should be at his head?

⁷ And David said to him, Fear not, for I will surely deal mercifully with you for the sake of Jonathan your father, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul the father of your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually. ⁸ And Memphibosthe did obeisance, and said, Who am I your servant, that you have looked upon a dead dog like me?

¹³ And Memphibosthe lived in Jerusalem, for he continually ate at the table of the king; and he was lame in both his feet.

⁶ Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give [them]. ⁷ But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸ And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moulathite. ⁹ And he gave them into the hand of the Gabaonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the lord: and they fell, even the seven together: moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of barley harvest.

³ And it came to pass after the expiration of the seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines to the city; and came to cry to the king for her house and for her lands.

¹⁷ then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days. ¹⁸ And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, [if] and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; [and] has stood up against his brother; ¹⁹ then shall you⌃ do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.

¹⁶ I called my servant, and he listened not; and my mouth entreated [him]. ¹⁷ And I implored my wife, and earnestly entreated the sons of my concubines.

² For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

¹³ Whoso answers a word before he hears [a cause], it is folly and reproach to him.

²⁶ I am grieved for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very lovely to me; your love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.

²⁷ And it came to pass when David came to Manaim, that Uesbi the son of Naas of Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, and Machir son of Amiel of Lodabar, and Berzelli the Galaadite of Rogellim, ²⁸ brought ten embroidered beds, (with double coverings,) and ten caldrons, and earthenware, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and meal, and beans, and pulse, ²⁹ and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheeses of kine: and they brought them to David and to his people with him to eat; for [one] said, The people [is] faint and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.

⁷ But you shall deal kindly with the sons of Berzelli the Galaadite, and they shall be among those that eat at your table; for thus they drew near to me when I fled from the face of your brother Abessalom.

⁶¹ And of the children of the priests, the children of Labeia, the children of Akkus, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughter of Berzellai the Galaadite, and was called by their name.

⁶³ And of the priests; the children of Ebia, the children of Acos, the children of Berzelli, for they took wives of the daughters of Berzelli the Galaadite, and they were called by their name.

²⁷ And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.

²⁹ And all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

⁷ And these [were] the years of the days of the life of Abraam as many as he lived, a hundred and seventy-five years.

²⁸ And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob's days of the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven years.

²⁶ And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

⁷ And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.

² And there was a man in Maon, and his flocks were in Carmel, and [he was] a very great man; and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand she-goats: and he happened to be shearing his flock in Carmel.

³ And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the [men] of the east.

³ For he shall deliver you from the snare of the hunters, from [every] troublesome matter. ⁴ He shall overshadow you with his shoulders, and you shall trust under his wings: his truth shall cover you with a shield. ⁵ You shall not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day; ⁶ [nor] of the [evil] thing that walks in darkness; [nor] of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day. ⁷ A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. ⁸ Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. ⁹ For you, O Lord, are my hope: you, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge. ¹⁰ No evils shall come upon you, and no scourge shall draw near to your dwelling.

³¹ Old age is a crown of honor, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.

¹¹ And Siba said to the king, According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will your servant do. And Memphibosthe did eat at the table of David, as one of the sons of the king.

⁸ And Pharao said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of your life? ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.

¹⁴ For if a man should die, shall he live [again], having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?

⁵ O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke [of them]: they exceeded number. ⁶ Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and [sacrifice] for sin you did not require.

⁸ And the daughter of Pharao said, Go: and the young woman went, and called the mother of the child.

⁴ And if they be few in a household, so that there are not enough for the lamb, he shall take with himself his neighbor that lives near to him, —as to the number of souls, every one according to that which suffices him shall make a reckoning for the lamb.

²⁵ And the king said to Abessalom, Nay, my son, let us not all go, and let us not be burdensome to you. And he pressed him; but he would not go, but blessed him.

³³ And David said to him, If you should go over with me, then will you be a burden to me;

⁶⁵ besides their menservants and maidservants, [and] these were seven thousand three hundred [and] thirty-seven: and [among] these were two hundred singing men and singing women.

⁶⁷ besides their menservants and their maidservants: these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty seven: and the singing-men and singing-women, two hundred and forty-five.

³⁰ For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?

¹¹ For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.

¹⁰ No evils shall come upon you, and no scourge shall draw near to your dwelling.

⁸ Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers.

¹ And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake [you] in which you shall say, I have no pleasure in them. ² While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain: ³ in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding [women] cease because they have become few, and the [women] looking out at the windows be dark; ⁴ and they shall shut the doors in the marketplace, because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds [at the mill]; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be brought low; ⁵ and they shall look up, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:

¹¹ Woe [to them] that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait [at it till] evening: for the wine shall inflame them. ¹² For they drink wine with harp, and lute, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

³⁰ But I will sleep with my fathers, and you shall carry me up out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to your word.

²¹ And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers.

²⁹ And he said to them, I am added to my people; you⌃ shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Chettite, ³⁰ in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre. ³¹ There they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca his wife; there they buried Lea;

¹³ So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.

¹⁴ But I hasten to go the way [of death], as all that are upon the earth also [do]: and you⌃ know in your heart and in your soul, that not one word has fallen [to the ground] of all the words which the Lord our God has spoken respecting all that concerns us; there has not one of them failed.

⁴⁰ And the king went over to Galgala, and Chamaam went over with him: and all the men of Juda went over with the king, and also half the people of Israel.

²² but have returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he spoke to you, saying, You shall not eat bread, and shall not drink water; [therefore] your body shall in nowise enter into the sepulchre of your fathers.

¹⁷ Therefore thus said the Lord; You⌃ have not listened to me, to proclaim a release every one to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion [among] all the kingdoms of the earth.

¹⁹ And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, who made heaven and earth,

³ And may my God bless you, and increase you, and multiply you, and you shall become gatherings of nations.

⁵⁵ And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brethren, and wept on them; and after these things his brethren spoke to him.

⁷ And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharao; and Jacob blessed Pharao.

¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharao, and departed from him.

²⁵ And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balac went to his own home.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice, and wept again; and Orpha kissed her mother-in-law and returned to her people; but Ruth followed her.

²² Now then swear to me by the Lord, that you will not destroy my seed after me, that you will not blot out my name from the house of my father.

¹⁸ And David made an end of offering the whole burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.

²⁰ And David returned to bless his house. And Melchol the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and saluted him, and said, How was the king of Israel glorified today, who was today uncovered in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the dancers wantonly uncovers himself!

³³ And Joab went in to the king, and brought him word: and he called Abessalom, and he went in to the king, and did him obeisance, and fell upon his face to the ground, even in the presence of the king; and the king kissed Abessalom.

²⁰ And Elisaie left the cattle, and ran after Eliu and said, I will kiss my father, and follow after you. And Eliu said, Return, for I have done [a work] for you.

¹⁰ A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations.

¹¹ And king David sent to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Israel, saying, Why are you⌃ the last to bring back the king to his house? whereas the word of all Israel is come to the king to his house. ¹² You⌃ [are] my brethren, you⌃ [are] my bones and my flesh: why are you⌃ the last to bring back the king to his house? ¹³ And you⌃ shall say to Amessai, [Are] you not my bone and my flesh? and now God do so to me, and more also, if you shall not be commander of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. ¹⁴ And he bowed the heart of all the men of Juda as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return you, and all your servants. ¹⁵ And the king returned, and came as far as Jordan. And the men of Juda came to Galgala on their way to meet the king, to cause the king to pass over Jordan.

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? therefore did you run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword? ²⁷ Whereas if you had told me, I would have sent you away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said to Gedeon, What [is] this [that] you have done to us, in that you did not call us when you went to fight with Madiam? and they chode with him sharply.

¹ And the men of Ephraim assembled [themselves], and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Therefore did you go over to fight with the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? we will burn your house over you with fire.

¹² You⌃ [are] my brethren, you⌃ [are] my bones and my flesh: why are you⌃ the last to bring back the king to his house?

³ The sons of Juda; Er, Aunan, Selom. [These] three were born to him of the daughter of Sava the Chananitish woman: and Er, the firstborn of Juda, [was] wicked before the Lord, and he killed him. ⁴ And Thamar his daughter-in-law bore to him Phares, and Zara: all the sons of Juda [were] five. ⁵ The sons of Phares, Esrom, and Jemuel. ⁶ And the sons of Zara, Zambri, and Aetham, and Aemuan, and Calchal, and Darad, [in] all five. ⁷ And the sons of Charmi; Achar the troubler of Israel, who was disobedient in the accursed thing. ⁸ And the sons of Aetham; Azarias, ⁹ and the sons of Esrom who were born to him; Jerameel, and Aram, and Chaleb. ¹⁰ And Aram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Naasson, chief of the house of Juda. ¹¹ And Naasson begot Salmon, and Salmon begot Booz, ¹² and Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jessae. ¹³ And Jessae begot his firstborn Eliab, Aminadab [was] the second, Samaa the third, ¹⁴ Nathanael the fourth, Zabdai the fifth, ¹⁵ Asam the sixth, David the seventh.

²³ And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Sicima; and the men of Sicima dealt treacherously with the house of Abimelech:

¹ And the men of Ephraim assembled [themselves], and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Therefore did you go over to fight with the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? we will burn your house over you with fire. ² And Jephthae said to them, I and my people and the children of Ammon were very much engaged in war; and I called for you, and you⌃ did not save me out of their hand. ³ And I saw that you were no helper, and I put my life in my hand, and passed on to the sons of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand: and therefore are you⌃ come up against me this day to fight with me? ⁴ And Jephthae gathered all the men of Galaad, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Galaad struck Ephraim, because they that were escaped of Ephraim said, You⌃ [are] of Galaad in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasse. ⁵ And Galaad took the fords of Jordan before Ephraim; and they that escaped of Ephraim said to them, Let us go over: and the men of Galaad said, Are you an Ephrathite? and he said, No. ⁶ Then they said to him, Say now Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and killed him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.

¹⁴ And he bowed the heart of all the men of Juda as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return you, and all your servants.

¹ And there was a transgressor [so] called there, and his name was Sabee, a Benjamite, the son of Bochori: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we [any] inheritance in the son of Jessae: to your tents, O Israel, every one.

⁶ And David said to Amessai, Now shall Sabee the son of Bochori do us more harm than Abessalom: now then take you with you the servants of your lord, and follow after him, lest he find for himself strong cities, so will he blind our eyes.

³⁰ And Achia laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it [into] twelve pieces: ³¹ and he said to Jeroboam, Take to yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes.

¹⁶ And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae. Depart, O Israel, to your tents: now feed your own house, David. So Israel departed to his tents.

¹⁰ A bad man does evil with insolence: but they that are judges of themselves are wise.

¹ Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger.

¹⁴ Rightful rule gives power to words; but sedition and strife precede poverty.

¹⁹ A brother helped by a brother is as a strong and high city; and is [as] strong as a [well]-founded palace.