2╙┴ 19:1 ┴ND IT WAS TOLD ╩OAB, ┬EHOLD, THE KING WEEPETH AND MOURNETH FOR ┴BSALOM.
2╙┴ 19:2 ┴ND 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.
2╙┴ 19:3 ┴ND THE PEOPLE GAT THEM BY STEALTH THAT DAY INTO THE CITY, AS PEOPLE BEING ASHAMED STEAL AWAY WHEN THEY FLEE IN BATTLE.
2╙┴ 19:4 ┬UT THE KING COVERED HIS FACE, AND THE KING CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, ╧ MY SON ┴BSALOM, ╧ ┴BSALOM, MY SON, MY SON!
2╙┴ 19:5 ┴ND ╩OAB CAME INTO THE HOUSE TO THE KING, AND SAID, ╘HOU 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;
2╙┴ 19:6 ╔N THAT THOU LOVEST THINE ENEMIES, AND HATEST THY FRIENDS. ╞OR THOU HAST DECLARED THIS DAY, THAT THOU REGARDEST NEITHER PRINCES NOR SERVANTS: FOR THIS DAY ╔ PERCEIVE, THAT IF ┴BSALOM HAD LIVED, AND ALL WE HAD DIED THIS DAY, THEN IT HAD PLEASED THEE WELL.
2╙┴ 19:7 ╬OW THEREFORE ARISE, GO FORTH, AND SPEAK COMFORTABLY UNTO THY SERVANTS: FOR ╔ SWEAR BY THE ╠╧╥─, 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.
2╙┴ 19:8 ╘HEN THE KING AROSE, AND SAT IN THE GATE. ┴ND THEY TOLD UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, SAYING, ┬EHOLD, THE KING DOTH SIT IN THE GATE. ┴ND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME BEFORE THE KING: FOR ╔SRAEL HAD FLED EVERY MAN TO HIS TENT.
2╙┴ 19:9 ┴ND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE AT STRIFE THROUGHOUT ALL THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL, SAYING, ╘HE KING SAVED US OUT OF THE HAND OF OUR ENEMIES, AND HE DELIVERED US OUT OF THE HAND OF THE ╨HILISTINES; AND NOW HE IS FLED OUT OF THE LAND FOR ┴BSALOM.
2╙┴ 19:10 ┴ND ┴BSALOM, WHOM WE ANOINTED OVER US, IS DEAD IN BATTLE. ╬OW THEREFORE WHY SPEAK YE NOT A WORD OF BRINGING THE KING BACK?
2╙┴ 19:11 ┴ND KING ─AVID SENT TO ┌ADOK AND TO ┴BIATHAR THE PRIESTS, SAYING, ╙PEAK UNTO THE ELDERS OF ╩UDAH, SAYING, ╫HY ARE YE THE LAST TO BRING THE KING BACK TO HIS HOUSE? SEEING THE SPEECH OF ALL ╔SRAEL IS COME TO THE KING, EVEN TO HIS HOUSE.
2╙┴ 19:12 ┘E ARE MY BRETHREN, YE ARE MY BONES AND MY FLESH: WHEREFORE THEN ARE YE THE LAST TO BRING BACK THE KING?
2╙┴ 19:13 ┴ND SAY YE TO ┴MASA, ┴RT THOU NOT OF MY BONE, AND OF MY FLESH? ╟OD DO SO TO ME, AND MORE ALSO, IF THOU BE NOT CAPTAIN OF THE HOST BEFORE ME CONTINUALLY IN THE ROOM OF ╩OAB.
2╙┴ 19:14 ┴ND HE BOWED THE HEART OF ALL THE MEN OF ╩UDAH, EVEN AS THE HEART OF ONE MAN; SO THAT THEY SENT THIS WORD UNTO THE KING, ╥ETURN THOU, AND ALL THY SERVANTS.
2╙┴ 19:15 ╙O THE KING RETURNED, AND CAME TO ╩ORDAN. ┴ND ╩UDAH CAME TO ╟ILGAL, TO GO TO MEET THE KING, TO CONDUCT THE KING OVER ╩ORDAN.
2╙┴ 19:16 ┴ND ╙HIMEI THE SON OF ╟ERA, A ┬ENJAMITE, WHICH WAS OF ┬AHURIM, HASTED AND CAME DOWN WITH THE MEN OF ╩UDAH TO MEET KING ─AVID.
2╙┴ 19:17 ┴ND THERE WERE A THOUSAND MEN OF ┬ENJAMIN WITH HIM, AND ┌IBA THE SERVANT OF THE HOUSE OF ╙AUL, AND HIS FIFTEEN SONS AND HIS TWENTY SERVANTS WITH HIM; AND THEY WENT OVER ╩ORDAN BEFORE THE KING.
2╙┴ 19:18 ┴ND THERE WENT OVER A FERRY BOAT TO CARRY OVER THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD, AND TO DO WHAT HE THOUGHT GOOD. ┴ND ╙HIMEI THE SON OF ╟ERA FELL DOWN BEFORE THE KING, AS HE WAS COME OVER ╩ORDAN;
2╙┴ 19:19 ┴ND SAID UNTO THE KING, ╠ET 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 ╩ERUSALEM, THAT THE KING SHOULD TAKE IT TO HIS HEART.
2╙┴ 19:20 ╞OR THY SERVANT DOTH KNOW THAT ╔ HAVE SINNED: THEREFORE, BEHOLD, ╔ AM COME THE FIRST THIS DAY OF ALL THE HOUSE OF ╩OSEPH TO GO DOWN TO MEET MY LORD THE KING.
2╙┴ 19:21 ┬UT ┴BISHAI THE SON OF ┌ERUIAH ANSWERED AND SAID, ╙HALL NOT ╙HIMEI BE PUT TO DEATH FOR THIS, BECAUSE HE CURSED THE ╠╧╥─'S ANOINTED?
2╙┴ 19:22 ┴ND ─AVID SAID, ╫HAT HAVE ╔ TO DO WITH YOU, YE SONS OF ┌ERUIAH, THAT YE SHOULD THIS DAY BE ADVERSARIES UNTO ME? SHALL THERE ANY MAN BE PUT TO DEATH THIS DAY IN ╔SRAEL? FOR DO NOT ╔ KNOW THAT ╔ AM THIS DAY KING OVER ╔SRAEL?
2╙┴ 19:23 ╘HEREFORE THE KING SAID UNTO ╙HIMEI, ╘HOU SHALT NOT DIE. ┴ND THE KING SWARE UNTO HIM.
2╙┴ 19:24 ┴ND ═EPHIBOSHETH THE SON OF ╙AUL 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.
2╙┴ 19:25 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WAS COME TO ╩ERUSALEM TO MEET THE KING, THAT THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HEREFORE WENTEST NOT THOU WITH ME, ═EPHIBOSHETH?
2╙┴ 19:26 ┴ND HE ANSWERED, ═Y LORD, ╧ KING, MY SERVANT DECEIVED ME: FOR THY SERVANT SAID, ╔ WILL SADDLE ME AN ASS, THAT ╔ MAY RIDE THEREON, AND GO TO THE KING; BECAUSE THY SERVANT IS LAME.
2╙┴ 19:27 ┴ND HE HATH SLANDERED THY SERVANT UNTO MY LORD THE KING; BUT MY LORD THE KING IS AS AN ANGEL OF ╟OD: DO THEREFORE WHAT IS GOOD IN THINE EYES.
2╙┴ 19:28 ╞OR 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. ╫HAT RIGHT THEREFORE HAVE ╔ YET TO CRY ANY MORE UNTO THE KING?
2╙┴ 19:29 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HY SPEAKEST THOU ANY MORE OF THY MATTERS? ╔ HAVE SAID, ╘HOU AND ┌IBA DIVIDE THE LAND.
2╙┴ 19:30 ┴ND ═EPHIBOSHETH SAID UNTO THE KING, ┘EA, LET HIM TAKE ALL, FORASMUCH AS MY LORD THE KING IS COME AGAIN IN PEACE UNTO HIS OWN HOUSE.
2╙┴ 19:31 ┴ND ┬ARZILLAI THE ╟ILEADITE CAME DOWN FROM ╥OGELIM, AND WENT OVER ╩ORDAN WITH THE KING, TO CONDUCT HIM OVER ╩ORDAN.
2╙┴ 19:32 ╬OW ┬ARZILLAI WAS A VERY AGED MAN, EVEN FOURSCORE YEARS OLD: AND HE HAD PROVIDED THE KING OF SUSTENANCE WHILE HE LAY AT ═AHANAIM; FOR HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN.
2╙┴ 19:33 ┴ND THE KING SAID UNTO ┬ARZILLAI, ├OME THOU OVER WITH ME, AND ╔ WILL FEED THEE WITH ME IN ╩ERUSALEM.
2╙┴ 19:34 ┴ND ┬ARZILLAI SAID UNTO THE KING, ╚OW LONG HAVE ╔ TO LIVE, THAT ╔ SHOULD GO UP WITH THE KING UNTO ╩ERU ALEM?
2╙┴ 19:35 ╔ AM THIS DAY FOURSCORE YEARS OLD: AND CAN ╔ DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL? CAN THY SERVANT TASTE WHAT ╔ EAT OR WHAT ╔ DRINK? CAN ╔ 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?
2╙┴ 19:36 ╘HY SERVANT WILL GO A LITTLE WAY OVER ╩ORDAN WITH THE KING: AND WHY SHOULD THE KING RECOMPENSE IT ME WITH SUCH A REWARD?
2╙┴ 19:37 ╠ET THY SERVANT, ╔ PRAY THEE, TURN BACK AGAIN, THAT ╔ MAY DIE IN MINE OWN CITY, AND BE BURIED BY THE GRAVE OF MY FATHER AND OF MY MOTHER. ┬UT BEHOLD THY SERVANT ├HIMHAM; LET HIM GO OVER WITH MY LORD THE KING; AND DO TO HIM WHAT SHALL SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE.
2╙┴ 19:38 ┴ND THE KING ANSWERED, ├HIMHAM SHALL GO OVER WITH ME, AND ╔ WILL DO TO HIM THAT WHICH SHALL SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE: AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT REQUIRE OF ME, THAT WILL ╔ DO FOR THEE.
2╙┴ 19:39 ┴ND ALL THE PEOPLE WENT OVER ╩ORDAN. ┴ND WHEN THE KING WAS COME OVER, THE KING KISSED ┬ARZILLAI, AND BLESSED HIM; AND HE RETURNED UNTO HIS OWN PLACE.
2╙┴ 19:40 ╘HEN THE KING WENT ON TO ╟ILGAL, AND ├HIMHAM WENT ON WITH HIM: AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF ╩UDAH CONDUCTED THE KING, AND ALSO HALF THE PEOPLE OF ╔SRAEL.
2╙┴ 19:41 ┴ND, BEHOLD, ALL THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID UNTO THE KING, ╫HY HAVE OUR BRETHREN THE MEN OF ╩UDAH STOLEN THEE AWAY, AND HAVE BROUGHT THE KING, AND HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND ALL ─AVID'S MEN WITH HIM, OVER ╩ORDAN?
2╙┴ 19:42 ┴ND ALL THE MEN OF ╩UDAH ANSWERED THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL, ┬ECAUSE 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?
2╙┴ 19:43 ┴ND THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL ANSWERED THE MEN OF ╩UDAH, AND SAID, ╫E HAVE TEN PARTS IN THE KING, AND WE HAVE ALSO MORE RIGHT IN ─AVID THAN YE: WHY THEN DID YE DESPISE US, THAT OUR ADVICE SHOULD NOT BE FIRST HAD IN BRINGING BACK OUR KING? ┴ND THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF ╩UDAH WERE FIERCER THAN THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL.
