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19:2. And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his
son.
19:3. And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a
people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the
battle.
19:4. And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my
son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.
19:5. Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed
this day the faces of all thy servants, that have saved thy life, and
the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives,
and the lives of thy concubines.
19:6. Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love
thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles,
nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had
lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.
19:7. Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of
thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go
forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and
that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee
from thy youth until now.
19:8. Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all
the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before
the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.
19:9. And all the people were at strife in 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 is fled out of
the land for Absalom.
19:10. But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle: how
long are you silent, and bring not back the king?
19:11. And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying:
Speak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring the
king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the king
in his house.)
19:12. You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you
the last to bring back the king?
19:13. And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do
God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army
before me always in the place of Joab.
19:14. And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of
one man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy
servants.
19:15. And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all Juda
came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the
Jordan.
19:16. And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made
haste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,
19:17. With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the
house of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:
and going over the Jordan,
19:18. They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over
the king's household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei the
son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the
Jordan,
19:19. Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor
remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the
king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.
19:20. For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come
this day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet
my lord the king.
19:21. But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for
these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?
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