2╙┴ 13:1 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ┴BSALOM THE SON OF ─AVID HAD A FAIR SISTER, WHOSE NAME WAS ╘AMAR; AND ┴MNON THE SON OF ─AVID LOVED HER.
2╙┴ 13:2 ┴ND ┴MNON WAS SO VEXED, THAT HE FELL SICK FOR HIS SISTER ╘AMAR; FOR SHE WAS A VIRGIN; AND ┴MNON THOUGHT IT HARD FOR HIM TO DO ANYTHING TO HER.
2╙┴ 13:3 ┬UT ┴MNON HAD A FRIEND, WHOSE NAME WAS ╩ONADAB, THE SON OF ╙HIMEAH ─AVID'S BROTHER: AND ╩ONADAB WAS A VERY SUBTIL MAN.
2╙┴ 13:4 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HY ART THOU, BEING THE KING'S SON, LEAN FROM DAY TO DAY? WILT THOU NOT TELL ME? ┴ND ┴MNON SAID UNTO HIM, ╔ LOVE ╘AMAR, MY BROTHER ┴BSALOM'S SISTER.
2╙┴ 13:5 ┴ND ╩ONADAB SAID UNTO HIM, ╠AY THEE DOWN ON THY BED, AND MAKE THYSELF SICK: AND WHEN THY FATHER COMETH TO SEE THEE, SAY UNTO HIM, ╔ PRAY THEE, LET MY SISTER ╘AMAR COME, AND GIVE ME MEAT, AND DRESS THE MEAT IN MY SIGHT, THAT ╔ MAY SEE IT, AND EAT IT AT HER HAND.
2╙┴ 13:6 ╙O ┴MNON LAY DOWN, AND MADE HIMSELF SICK: AND WHEN THE KING WAS COME TO SEE HIM, ┴MNON SAID UNTO THE KING, ╔ PRAY THEE, LET ╘AMAR MY SISTER COME, AND MAKE ME A COUPLE OF CAKES IN MY SIGHT, THAT ╔ MAY EAT AT HER HAND.
2╙┴ 13:7 ╘HEN ─AVID SENT HOME TO ╘AMAR, SAYING, ╟O NOW TO THY BROTHER ┴MNON'S HOUSE, AND DRESS HIM MEAT.
2╙┴ 13:8 ╙O ╘AMAR WENT TO HER BROTHER ┴MNON'S HOUSE; AND HE WAS LAID DOWN. ┴ND SHE TOOK FLOUR, AND KNEADED IT, AND MADE CAKES IN HIS SIGHT, AND DID BAKE THE CAKES.
2╙┴ 13:9 ┴ND SHE TOOK A PAN, AND POURED THEM OUT BEFORE HIM; BUT HE REFUSED TO EAT. ┴ND ┴MNON SAID, ╚AVE OUT ALL MEN FROM ME. ┴ND THEY WENT OUT EVERY MAN FROM HIM.
2╙┴ 13:10 ┴ND ┴MNON SAID UNTO ╘AMAR, ┬RING THE MEAT INTO THE CHAMBER, THAT ╔ MAY EAT OF THINE HAND. ┴ND ╘AMAR TOOK THE CAKES WHICH SHE HAD MADE, AND BROUGHT THEM INTO THE CHAMBER TO ┴MNON HER BROTHER.
2╙┴ 13:11 ┴ND WHEN SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UNTO HIM TO EAT, HE TOOK HOLD OF HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, ├OME LIE WITH ME, MY SISTER.
2╙┴ 13:12 ┴ND SHE ANSWERED HIM, ╬AY, MY BROTHER, DO NOT FORCE ME; FOR NO SUCH THING OUGHT TO BE DONE IN ╔SRAEL: DO NOT THOU THIS FOLLY.
2╙┴ 13:13 ┴ND ╔, WHITHER SHALL ╔ CAUSE MY SHAME TO GO? AND AS FOR THEE, THOU SHALT BE AS ONE OF THE FOOLS IN ╔SRAEL. ╬OW THEREFORE, ╔ PRAY THEE, SPEAK UNTO THE KING; FOR HE WILL NOT WITHHOLD ME FROM THEE.
2╙┴ 13:14 ╚OWBEIT HE WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO HER VOICE: BUT, BEING STRONGER THAN SHE, FORCED HER, AND LAY WITH HER.
2╙┴ 13:15 ╘HEN ┴MNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY; SO THAT THE HATRED WHEREWITH HE HATED HER WAS GREATER THAN THE LOVE WHEREWITH HE HAD LOVED HER. ┴ND ┴MNON SAID UNTO HER, ┴RISE, BE GONE.
2╙┴ 13:16 ┴ND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HERE IS NO CAUSE: THIS EVIL IN SENDING ME AWAY IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER THAT THOU DIDST UNTO ME. ┬UT HE WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO HER.
2╙┴ 13:17 ╘HEN HE CALLED HIS SERVANT THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM, AND SAID, ╨UT NOW THIS WOMAN OUT FROM ME, AND BOLT THE DOOR AFTER HER.
2╙┴ 13:18 ┴ND SHE HAD A GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS UPON HER: FOR WITH SUCH ROBES WERE THE KING'S DAUGHTERS THAT WERE VIRGINS APPARELLED. ╘HEN HIS SERVANT BROUGHT HER OUT, AND BOLTED THE DOOR AFTER HER.
2╙┴ 13:19 ┴ND ╘AMAR PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD, AND RENT HER GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS THAT WAS ON HER, AND LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD, AND WENT ON CRYING.
2╙┴ 13:20 ┴ND ┴BSALOM HER BROTHER SAID UNTO HER, ╚ATH ┴MNON THY BROTHER BEEN WITH THEE? BUT HOLD NOW THY PEACE, MY SISTER: HE IS THY BROTHER; REGARD NOT THIS THING. ╙O ╘AMAR REMAINED DESOLATE IN HER BROTHER ┴BSALOM'S HOUSE.
2╙┴ 13:21 ┬UT WHEN KING ─AVID HEARD OF ALL THESE THINGS, HE WAS VERY WROTH.
2╙┴ 13:22 ┴ND ┴BSALOM SPAKE UNTO HIS BROTHER ┴MNON NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD: FOR ┴BSALOM HATED ┴MNON, BECAUSE HE HAD FORCED HIS SISTER ╘AMAR.
2╙┴ 13:23 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER TWO FULL YEARS, THAT ┴BSALOM HAD SHEEPSHEARERS IN ┬AALHAZOR, WHICH IS BESIDE ┼PHRAIM: AND ┴BSALOM INVITED ALL THE KING'S SONS.
2╙┴ 13:24 ┴ND ┴BSALOM CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID, ┬EHOLD NOW, THY SERVANT HATH SHEEPSHEARERS; LET THE KING, ╔ BESEECH THEE, AND HIS SERVANTS GO WITH THY SERVANT.
2╙┴ 13:25 ┴ND THE KING SAID TO ┴BSALOM, ╬AY, MY SON, LET US NOT ALL NOW GO, LEST WE BE CHARGEABLE UNTO THEE. ┴ND HE PRESSED HIM: HOWBEIT HE WOULD NOT GO, BUT BLESSED HIM.
2╙┴ 13:26 ╘HEN SAID ┴BSALOM, ╔F NOT, ╔ PRAY THEE, LET MY BROTHER ┴MNON GO WITH US. ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HY SHOULD HE GO WITH THEE?
2╙┴ 13:27 ┬UT ┴BSALOM PRESSED HIM, THAT HE LET ┴MNON AND ALL THE KING'S SONS GO WITH HIM.
2╙┴ 13:28 ╬OW ┴BSALOM HAD COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, SAYING, ═ARK YE NOW WHEN ┴MNON'S HEART IS MERRY WITH WINE, AND WHEN ╔ SAY UNTO YOU, ╙MITE ┴MNON; THEN KILL HIM, FEAR NOT: HAVE NOT ╔ COMMANDED YOU? BE COURAGEOUS, AND BE VALIANT.
2╙┴ 13:29 ┴ND THE SERVANTS OF ┴BSALOM DID UNTO ┴MNON AS ┴BSALOM HAD COMMANDED. ╘HEN ALL THE KING'S SONS AROSE, AND EVERY MAN GAT HIM UP UPON HIS MULE, AND FLED.
2╙┴ 13:30 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE THEY WERE IN THE WAY, THAT TIDINGS CAME TO ─AVID, SAYING, ┴BSALOM HATH SLAIN ALL THE KING'S SONS, AND THERE IS NOT ONE OF THEM LEFT.
2╙┴ 13:31 ╘HEN THE KING AROSE, AND TARE HIS GARMENTS, AND LAY ON THE EARTH; AND ALL HIS SERVANTS STOOD BY WITH THEIR CLOTHES RENT.
2╙┴ 13:32 ┴ND ╩ONADAB, THE SON OF ╙HIMEAH ─AVID'S BROTHER, ANSWERED AND SAID, ╠ET NOT MY LORD SUPPOSE THAT THEY HAVE SLAIN ALL THE YOUNG MEN THE KING'S SONS; FOR ┴MNON ONLY IS DEAD: FOR BY THE APPOINTMENT OF ┴BSALOM THIS HATH BEEN DETERMINED FROM THE DAY THAT HE FORCED HIS SISTER ╘AMAR.
2╙┴ 13:33 ╬OW THEREFORE LET NOT MY LORD THE KING TAKE THE THING TO HIS HEART, TO THINK THAT ALL THE KING'S SONS ARE DEAD: FOR ┴MNON ONLY IS DEAD.
2╙┴ 13:34 ┬UT ┴BSALOM FLED. ┴ND THE YOUNG MAN THAT KEPT THE WATCH LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME MUCH PEOPLE BY THE WAY OF THE HILL SIDE BEHIND HIM.
2╙┴ 13:35 ┴ND ╩ONADAB SAID UNTO THE KING, ┬EHOLD, THE KING'S SONS COME: AS THY SERVANT SAID, SO IT IS.
2╙┴ 13:36 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING, THAT, BEHOLD, THE KING'S SONS CAME, AND LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT: AND THE KING ALSO AND ALL HIS SERVANTS WEPT VERY SORE.
2╙┴ 13:37 ┬UT ┴BSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO ╘ALMAI, THE SON OF ┴MMIHUD, KING OF ╟ESHUR. ┴ND ─AVID MOURNED FOR HIS SON EVERY DAY.
2╙┴ 13:38 ╙O ┴BSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO ╟ESHUR, AND WAS THERE THREE YEARS.
2╙┴ 13:39 ┴ND THE SOUL OF KING ─AVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ┴BSALOM: FOR HE WAS COMFORTED CONCERNING ┴MNON, SEEING HE WAS DEAD.
