2╙┴ 18:1 ┴ND ─AVID NUMBERED THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND SET CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS OVER THEM.
2╙┴ 18:2 ┴ND ─AVID SENT FORTH A THIRD PART OF THE PEOPLE UNDER THE HAND OF ╩OAB, AND A THIRD PART UNDER THE HAND OF ┴BISHAI THE SON OF ┌ERUIAH, ╩OAB'S BROTHER, AND A THIRD PART UNDER THE HAND OF ╔TTAI THE ╟ITTITE. ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, ╔ WILL SURELY GO FORTH WITH YOU MYSELF ALSO.
2╙┴ 18:3 ┬UT THE PEOPLE ANSWERED, ╘HOU SHALT NOT GO FORTH: FOR IF WE FLEE AWAY, THEY WILL NOT CARE FOR US; NEITHER IF HALF OF US DIE, WILL THEY CARE FOR US: BUT NOW THOU ART WORTH TEN THOUSAND OF US: THEREFORE NOW IT IS BETTER THAT THOU SUCCOUR US OUT OF THE CITY.
2╙┴ 18:4 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO THEM, ╫HAT SEEMETH YOU BEST ╔ WILL DO. ┴ND THE KING STOOD BY THE GATE SIDE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME OUT BY HUNDREDS AND BY THOUSANDS.
2╙┴ 18:5 ┴ND THE KING COMMANDED ╩OAB AND ┴BISHAI AND ╔TTAI, SAYING, ─EAL GENTLY FOR MY SAKE WITH THE YOUNG MAN, EVEN WITH ┴BSALOM. ┴ND ALL THE PEOPLE HEARD WHEN THE KING GAVE ALL THE CAPTAINS CHARGE CONCERNING ┴BSALOM.
2╙┴ 18:6 ╙O THE PEOPLE WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD AGAINST ╔SRAEL: AND THE BATTLE WAS IN THE WOOD OF ┼PHRAIM;
2╙┴ 18:7 ╫HERE THE PEOPLE OF ╔SRAEL WERE SLAIN BEFORE THE SERVANTS OF ─AVID, AND THERE WAS THERE A GREAT SLAUGHTER THAT DAY OF TWENTY THOUSAND MEN.
2╙┴ 18:8 ╞OR THE BATTLE WAS THERE SCATTERED OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE COUNTRY: AND THE WOOD DEVOURED MORE PEOPLE THAT DAY THAN THE SWORD DEVOURED.
2╙┴ 18:9 ┴ND ┴BSALOM MET THE SERVANTS OF ─AVID. ┴ND ┴BSALOM RODE UPON A MULE, AND THE MULE WENT UNDER THE THICK BOUGHS OF A GREAT OAK, AND HIS HEAD CAUGHT HOLD OF THE OAK, AND HE WAS TAKEN UP BETWEEN THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH; AND THE MULE THAT WAS UNDER HIM WENT AWAY.
2╙┴ 18:10 ┴ND A CERTAIN MAN SAW IT, AND TOLD ╩OAB, AND SAID, ┬EHOLD, ╔ SAW ┴BSALOM HANGED IN AN OAK.
2╙┴ 18:11 ┴ND ╩OAB SAID UNTO THE MAN THAT TOLD HIM, ┴ND, BEHOLD, THOU SAWEST HIM, AND WHY DIDST THOU NOT SMITE HIM THERE TO THE GROUND? AND ╔ WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEE TEN SHEKELS OF SILVER, AND A GIRDLE.
2╙┴ 18:12 ┴ND THE MAN SAID UNTO ╩OAB, ╘HOUGH ╔ SHOULD RECEIVE A THOUSAND SHEKELS OF SILVER IN MINE HAND, YET WOULD ╔ NOT PUT FORTH MINE HAND AGAINST THE KING'S SON: FOR IN OUR HEARING THE KING CHARGED THEE AND ┴BISHAI AND ╔TTAI, SAYING, ┬EWARE THAT NONE TOUCH THE YOUNG MAN ┴BSALOM.
2╙┴ 18:13 ╧THERWISE ╔ SHOULD HAVE WROUGHT FALSEHOOD AGAINST MINE OWN LIFE: FOR THERE IS NO MATTER HID FROM THE KING, AND THOU THYSELF WOULDEST HAVE SET THYSELF AGAINST ME.
2╙┴ 18:14 ╘HEN SAID ╩OAB, ╔ MAY NOT TARRY THUS WITH THEE. ┴ND HE TOOK THREE DARTS IN HIS HAND, AND THRUST THEM THROUGH THE HEART OF ┴BSALOM, WHILE HE WAS YET ALIVE IN THE MIDST OF THE OAK.
2╙┴ 18:15 ┴ND TEN YOUNG MEN THAT BARE ╩OAB'S ARMOUR COMPASSED ABOUT AND SMOTE ┴BSALOM, AND SLEW HIM.
2╙┴ 18:16 ┴ND ╩OAB BLEW THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE RETURNED FROM PURSUING AFTER ╔SRAEL: FOR ╩OAB HELD BACK THE PEOPLE.
2╙┴ 18:17 ┴ND THEY TOOK ┴BSALOM, AND CAST HIM INTO A GREAT PIT IN THE WOOD, AND LAID A VERY GREAT HEAP OF STONES UPON HIM: AND ALL ╔SRAEL FLED EVERY ONE TO HIS TENT.
2╙┴ 18:18 ╬OW ┴BSALOM IN HIS LIFETIME HAD TAKEN AND REARED UP FOR HIMSELF A PILLAR, WHICH IS IN THE KING'S DALE: FOR HE SAID, ╔ HAVE NO SON TO KEEP MY NAME IN REMEMBRANCE: AND HE CALLED THE PILLAR AFTER HIS OWN NAME: AND IT IS CALLED UNTO THIS DAY, ┴BSALOM'S PLACE.
2╙┴ 18:19 ╘HEN SAID ┴HIMAAZ THE SON OF ┌ADOK, ╠ET ME NOW RUN, AND BEAR THE KING TIDINGS, HOW THAT THE ╠╧╥─ HATH AVENGED HIM OF HIS ENEMIES.
2╙┴ 18:20 ┴ND ╩OAB SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HOU SHALT NOT BEAR TIDINGS THIS DAY, BUT THOU SHALT BEAR TIDINGS ANOTHER DAY: BUT THIS DAY THOU SHALT BEAR NO TIDINGS, BECAUSE THE KING'S SON IS DEAD.
2╙┴ 18:21 ╘HEN SAID ╩OAB TO ├USHI, ╟O TELL THE KING WHAT THOU HAST SEEN. ┴ND ├USHI BOWED HIMSELF UNTO ╩OAB, AND RAN.
2╙┴ 18:22 ╘HEN SAID ┴HIMAAZ THE SON OF ┌ADOK YET AGAIN TO ╩OAB, ┬UT HOWSOEVER, LET ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, ALSO RUN AFTER ├USHI. ┴ND ╩ AB SAID, ╫HEREFORE WILT THOU RUN, MY SON, SEEING THAT THOU HAST NO TIDINGS READY?
2╙┴ 18:23 ┬UT HOWSOEVER, SAID HE, LET ME RUN. ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╥UN. ╘HEN ┴HIMAAZ RAN BY THE WAY OF THE PLAIN, AND OVERRAN ├USHI.
2╙┴ 18:24 ┴ND ─AVID SAT BETWEEN THE TWO GATES: AND THE WATCHMAN WENT UP TO THE ROOF OVER THE GATE UNTO THE WALL, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD A MAN RUNNING ALONE.
2╙┴ 18:25 ┴ND THE WATCHMAN CRIED, AND TOLD THE KING. ┴ND THE KING SAID, ╔F HE BE ALONE, THERE IS TIDINGS IN HIS MOUTH. ┴ND HE CAME APACE, AND DREW NEAR.
2╙┴ 18:26 ┴ND THE WATCHMAN SAW ANOTHER MAN RUNNING: AND THE WATCHMAN CALLED UNTO THE PORTER, AND SAID, ┬EHOLD ANOTHER MAN RUNNING ALONE. ┴ND THE KING SAID, ╚E ALSO BRINGETH TIDINGS.
2╙┴ 18:27 ┴ND THE WATCHMAN SAID, ═E THINKETH THE RUNNING OF THE FOREMOST IS LIKE THE RUNNING OF ┴HIMAAZ THE SON OF ┌ADOK. ┴ND THE KING SAID, ╚E IS A GOOD MAN, AND COMETH WITH GOOD TIDINGS.
2╙┴ 18:28 ┴ND ┴HIMAAZ CALLED, AND SAID UNTO THE KING, ┴LL IS WELL. ┴ND HE FELL DOWN TO THE EARTH UPON HIS FACE BEFORE THE KING, AND SAID, ┬LESSED BE THE ╠╧╥─ THY ╟OD, WHICH HATH DELIVERED UP THE MEN THAT LIFTED UP THEIR HAND AGAINST MY LORD THE KING.
2╙┴ 18:29 ┴ND THE KING SAID, ╔S THE YOUNG MAN ┴BSALOM SAFE? ┴ND ┴HIMAAZ ANSWERED, ╫HEN ╩OAB SENT THE KING'S SERVANT, AND ME THY SERVANT, ╔ SAW A GREAT TUMULT, BUT ╔ KNEW NOT WHAT IT WAS.
2╙┴ 18:30 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ╘URN ASIDE, AND STAND HERE. ┴ND HE TURNED ASIDE, AND STOOD STILL.
2╙┴ 18:31 ┴ND, BEHOLD, ├USHI CAME; AND ├USHI SAID, ╘IDINGS, MY LORD THE KING: FOR THE ╠╧╥─ HATH AVENGED THEE THIS DAY OF ALL THEM THAT ROSE UP AGAINST THEE.
2╙┴ 18:32 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO ├USHI, ╔S THE YOUNG MAN ┴BSALOM SAFE? ┴ND ├USHI ANSW RED, ╘HE ENEMIES OF MY LORD THE KING, AND ALL THAT RISE AGAINST THEE TO DO THEE HURT, BE AS THAT YOUNG MAN IS.
2╙┴ 18:33 ┴ND THE KING WAS MUCH MOVED, AND WENT UP TO THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE, AND WEPT: AND AS HE WENT, THUS HE SAID, ╧ MY SON ┴BSALOM, MY SON, MY SON ┴BSALOM! WOULD ╟OD ╔ HAD DIED FOR THEE, ╧ ┴BSALOM, MY SON, MY SON!
