Verse 28
2 Samuel 19:28
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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For all of my father's house were no better than worthy of death before my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the guests of thy table: what just complaint therefore have I? or what right to cry any more to the king?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְרַגֵּ֣ל בְּ/עַבְדְּ/ךָ֔ אֶל אֲדֹנִ֖/י הַ/מֶּ֑לֶךְ וַ/אדֹנִ֤/י הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ כְּ/מַלְאַ֣ךְ הָ/אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַ/עֲשֵׂ֥ה הַ/טּ֖וֹב בְּ/עֵינֶֽי/ךָ
English Translation
And he was accustomed to your servant to my lord the king, and my lord the king is like the angel of God; and do what is good in your eyes.
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Chapter 19 Context
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And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:
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And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that...
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And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their...
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And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my...
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Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy ser...
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Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love thee: and thou hast shewn this day t...
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Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee...
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Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the...
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And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel, saying: The king delivered us out of...
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But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle: how long are you silent, and bring not...
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And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying: Speak to the ancients of Juda, sayin...
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You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?
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And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God (Elohim) to me and add more, if t...
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And be inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of one man: and they sent to the king,...
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And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all Juda came as far as Galgal to meet the...
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And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made haste and went down with the men of Jud...
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With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the house of Saul: and his fifteen sons, an...
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They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over the king's household, and do accord...
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Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor remember the injuries of thy servant on th...
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For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come this day the first of all the house of...
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But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for these words not be put to death, becau...
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And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? why are you a satan this day to me? s...
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And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore unto him.
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And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and he had neither washed his feet, nor...
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And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why camest thou not with me, Miphiboset...
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And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me: for I thy servant spoke to him to s...
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Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord the king: but thou my lord the king ar...
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For all of my father's house were no better than worthy of death before my lord the king; and thou h...
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Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I have said is determined: thou and Siba...
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And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all, for as much as my lord the king is returne...
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Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought the king over the Jordan, being ready...
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Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided...
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And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest rest secure with me in Jerusalem.
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And Berzellai said to the king: How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up w...
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I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or d...
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I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.
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But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of...
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Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do for him whatsoever shall pleas...
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And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai, and bles...
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So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the people of Juda had brought the king...
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Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king, said to him: Why have our brethren the...
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And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why art thou a...
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And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than tho...
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