Verse 1
2 Samuel 19:1
New King James Version
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And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּרְגַּ֣ז הַ/מֶּ֗לֶךְ וַ/יַּ֛עַל עַל עֲלִיַּ֥ת הַ/שַּׁ֖עַר וַ/יֵּ֑בְךְּ וְ/כֹ֣ה אָמַ֣ר בְּ/לֶכְתּ֗/וֹ בְּנִ֤/י אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ בְּנִ֣/י בְנִ֣/י אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם מִֽי יִתֵּ֤ן מוּתִ/י֙ אֲנִ֣י תַחְתֶּ֔י/ךָ אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם בְּנִ֥/י בְנִֽ/י
English Translation
And the king trembled and went up to the gate's roof and wept, and thus he said as he went: "My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Who will give me death instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son?"
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Chapter 19 Context
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And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
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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 gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when t...
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But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my...
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And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy s...
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In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that tho...
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Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if...
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Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the kin...
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And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out...
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10
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of b...
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11
And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, sa...
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12
Ye
are my brethren, ye
are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the k...
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13
And say ye to Amasa,
Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God (Elohim) do so to me, and more al...
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14
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as
the heart of one man; so that they sent
this...
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15
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to condu...
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And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which
was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of...
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And
there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and h...
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And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good....
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And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which...
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For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all...
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But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because...
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And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversari...
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Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
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And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor t...
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And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wh...
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And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an...
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And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king
is as an angel of God...
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For all
of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy serva...
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And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba di...
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And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come ag...
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And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct h...
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Now Barzillai was a very aged man,
even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustena...
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And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
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And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Je...
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I
am this day fourscore years old:
and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste wh...
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Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me...
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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city,
and be buried by the...
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And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem goo...
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And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and...
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Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted...
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And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren t...
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42
And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king
is near of kin to us: wherefor...
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And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we hav...
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