The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:1 (ESV)
It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:2 (KJV)
And 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.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:19:3, "And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:4 (KJV)
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:5, "And Yo’aḇ came into the house to the sovereign, and said, “Today you have put to shame all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and daughters, and the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines,"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:6 (KJV)In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:7, “And now, arise, go out and speak to the heart of your servants. For I swear by יהוה, if you do not go out, not one passes the night with you. And that is worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:8
New International Version (NIV)

So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men were told, “The king is sitting in the gateway,” they all came before him.


Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:9, "And it came to be, that all the people were contending throughout all the tribes of Yisra’yl, saying, “The sovereign delivered us from the hand of the enemies, he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of Aḇshalom,"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:10 (ESV)
But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:11, "And Sovereign Dawiḏ sent to Tsaḏoq and Eḇyathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Yehuḏah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the sovereign back to his house, since the words of all Yisra’ĕl have come to the sovereign, to his house?"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:12 (ESV)
You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:13, "“And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? Elohim do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me all the days in place of Yo’aḇ.’ ”"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:14 (KJV)
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:15 (KJV)
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:16, "And Shim‛i son of Gĕra, a Binyamite, who was from Baḥurim, hastened and came down with the men of Yehuḏah to meet Sovereign Dawiḏ."

 

[Dai3234]

2 Samuel 19:17, KJV,
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:18
New International Version (NIV)

They crossed at the ford to take the king’s household over and to do whatever he wished.


When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:19 (KJV)
And said unto the king, Let 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 Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:20 (KJV)
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.