And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. 2Sa 18:142Sa 18:52Sa 18:122Sa 18:202Sa 18:33Pro 17:25 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son. 1 Pro 16:15Pro 19:12 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. 2Sa 17:242Sa 19:32Gen 31:27 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! 2Sa 15:302Sa 18:33 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day 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; Neh 9:27Psa 18:47-48Psa 3:8 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. 2 3 2Sa 3:24-25Act 23:5Job 34:18Pro 19:9-10 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now. 4 Pro 14:28Gen 34:3Hos 2:14Isa 40:1Pro 19:15Psa 129:1-2Psa 71:18-20Psa 71:4-6 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent. 2Sa 18:242Sa 18:41Ki 22:362Ki 14:122Sa 15:22Sa 18:172Sa 18:6-82Sa 19:3
¶ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. 2Sa 15:142Sa 8:1-14Gen 3:12-131Sa 17:501Sa 18:251Sa 18:5-71Sa 19:52Sa 5:20 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? 5 2Sa 15:12-132Sa 18:14Hos 8:4Jdg 18:9
¶ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house. 2Sa 15:291Ki 2:25-261Ki 2:352Co 5:202Sa 15:35-362Th 3:9Mat 5:16 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? 2Sa 5:1Eph 5:30Gen 2:23Jdg 9:2 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. 2Sa 17:251Ki 19:22Sa 8:16Rut 1:172Sa 19:5-72Sa 3:29-301Ch 12:181Ch 2:16-17 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants. Jdg 20:1Act 4:32Psa 110:2-3 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan. Jos 5:91Sa 11:14-15
¶ And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. 1Ki 2:82Sa 16:5-131Ki 2:36-46Job 2:4Mat 5:25Pro 6:4-5 And there 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 over Jordan before the king. 2Sa 16:1-42Sa 9:22Sa 19:26-272Sa 9:10 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; 6 Psa 66:3Psa 81:15Rev 3:9 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. 1Sa 22:151Sa 25:251Sa 26:212Co 5:192Sa 13:202Sa 13:332Sa 16:5-14Ecc 10:4 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king. 1Ki 12:201Ki 12:252Sa 16:52Sa 19:9Gen 48:14Gen 48:20Hos 4:15-17Hos 5:15 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed? Exo 22:281Sa 26:91Ki 21:10-111Sa 24:62Sa 16:132Sa 16:52Sa 16:7-8 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto 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? 1Sa 11:132Sa 16:102Sa 3:391Sa 26:8Isa 16:5Luk 9:54-56Mat 8:29 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him. 1Ki 2:461Ki 2:8-91Ki 2:371Sa 28:101Sa 30:15Heb 6:16
¶ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace. 2Sa 15:302Sa 16:32Sa 9:6-10Heb 13:3Isa 15:2Jer 41:5Mat 6:16Rom 12:15 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth? 2Sa 16:17 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame. 2Sa 16:2-32Sa 4:42Sa 9:3 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 2Sa 14:172Sa 14:201Sa 29:92Sa 16:3Jer 9:4Exo 20:16Psa 101:5Psa 15:3 For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? 7 2Sa 9:132Sa 9:101Sa 26:162Ki 8:32Sa 21:6-92Sa 9:7-8Gen 32:10 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. Act 18:15Deu 19:17-19Job 19:16-17Pro 18:13Psa 101:5Psa 82:2 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house. 2Sa 1:26Act 20:24Php 1:20
¶ And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. 1Ki 2:72Sa 17:27-29Ezr 2:61Neh 7:63 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. 1Sa 25:2Deu 34:7Job 1:3Pro 16:31Gen 25:7Gen 47:28Gen 5:27Gen 9:29 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. 2Sa 9:112Th 1:7Luk 22:28-30Mat 25:34-40 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 8 1Co 7:29Jas 4:14Gen 47:8-9Job 14:14Psa 39:5-6 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? 2Sa 15:33Ezr 2:65Psa 90:101Pe 2:32Sa 13:25Ecc 12:1-5Ecc 2:8Exo 12:4 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? Luk 6:38 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. 1Ki 2:7Jer 41:172Sa 19:401Ki 13:222Pe 1:142Ti 4:6Gen 47:30Gen 48:21 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee. 9 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place. Gen 31:55Rut 1:14Gen 47:71Ki 19:201Sa 24:221Th 5:262Sa 13:252Sa 14:33
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. 10 2Sa 19:11-15Gen 49:10Mat 21:9
¶ And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan? Jdg 12:1Jdg 8:12Sa 19:3Gen 31:26-27Jhn 7:5-6 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift? 2Sa 19:121Ch 2:3-172Sa 5:1 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. 11 Gal 5:202Sa 5:11Ki 11:30-31Jas 3:14-16Jas 4:1-51Ki 12:162Sa 19:142Sa 19:9