2Samuel:17-24
gltv@2Samuel:17:1 @ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I shall rise up and pursue David tonight.
gltv@2Samuel:17:2 @ And I shall come on him, and he shall be weary and feeble handed. And I will make him tremble, and the people with him shall flee. And I shall strike the king by himself.
gltv@2Samuel:17:3 @ And I shall bring all the people back to you when all return, except the man whom you are seeking. All the people shall be in peace.
gltv@2Samuel:17:4 @ And the thing was pleasing in Absalom's eyes, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.
gltv@2Samuel:17:5 @ And Absalom said, Please call for Hushai the Archite also. And we shall hear what is in his mouth, also he.
gltv@2Samuel:17:6 @ And Hushai came in to Absalom. And Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel has spoken according to this word. Shall we do this word? If not, you speak.
gltv@2Samuel:17:7 @ And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel Ahithophel counseled is not good at this time.
gltv@2Samuel:17:8 @ And Hushai said, You have known your father and his men, that they are mighty men. And they are bitter of soul, like a bear bereaved of cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war, and shall not stay the night with the people.
gltv@2Samuel:17:9 @ Behold, now he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places. And it shall be, at the falling among them at the beginning, that whoever hears even shall say, There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
gltv@2Samuel:17:10 @ And also he, the son of valor, whose heart is as the heart of the lion, shall utterly melt. For all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those with him sons of valor.
gltv@2Samuel:17:11 @ So I counsel this: let all Israel be diligently gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude. And you yourself shall go into battle.
gltv@2Samuel:17:12 @ And we shall come in to him, in one of the places, there where he shall be found. And we shall fall on him as the dew falls on the ground. And of all the men who are with him, not even one shall be left.
gltv@2Samuel:17:13 @ And if he is taken into a city, then all Israel shall bear ropes to that city. And we shall draw it into the torrent bed, until there shall not be found even a pebble.
gltv@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah had ordained to break down the good counsel of Ahithophel, for the sake of bringing the evil of Jehovah to Absalom.
gltv@2Samuel:17:15 @ And Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests, Ahithophel has counseled this and this to Absalom and the elders of Israel. And I have counseled this and this.
gltv@2Samuel:17:16 @ And now send quickly and tell David, saying, Do not stay in the fords of the wilderness tonight. And, also, be sure to pass over, that there not be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people with him.
gltv@2Samuel:17:17 @ And Jonathan and Ahimaaz were standing at En-rogel, for they were not able to be seen going into the city. And a slave-girl went and told them. And they went and told it to king David.
gltv@2Samuel:17:18 @ And a youth saw them, and told Absalom. And they went on, both of them in haste, and came into the house of a man in Bahurim. And he had a well in his court, and they went down there.
gltv@2Samuel:17:19 @ And the woman took and spread the covering over the well, and spread ground grain on it. And the thing was not known.
gltv@2Samuel:17:20 @ And the servants of Absalom came in to the woman, to the house, and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They passed over the river of water. And they looked and did not find them. And they returned to Jerusalem.
gltv@2Samuel:17:21 @ And it happened after they left, they came up out of the well and went and told king David. And they said to David, Rise up and quickly pass over the waters, for Ahithophel has counseled this against you.
gltv@2Samuel:17:22 @ And David and all the people with him rose up, and they passed over the Jordan until the light of the morning, until there was not one lacking who had not crossed the Jordan.
gltv@2Samuel:17:23 @ And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done. And he saddled the ass and rose up and went to his house, to his city. And he gave command to his household, then hanged himself, and died. And he was buried in the burying place of his father.
gltv@2Samuel:17:24 @ And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
gltv@2Samuel:17:25 @ And Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. And Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had gone in to Abigail, the daughter of Nahash, the sister of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab.
gltv@2Samuel:17:26 @ And Israel camped with Absalom in the land of Gilead.
gltv@2Samuel:17:27 @ And it happened as David came into Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash, from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, from Rogelim,
gltv@2Samuel:17:28 @ brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted grain, and beans, and lentils, and roasted grain,
gltv@2Samuel:17:29 @ and honey, and curds and sheep, and cheese from the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him to eat. For they said, The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.
gltv@2Samuel:18:1 @ And David mustered the people who were with him, and he set over them commanders of hundreds.
gltv@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent one third of the people by the hand of Joab, and one third by the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third by Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people. Going out I will go with you, I also.
gltv@2Samuel:18:3 @ And the people said, You shall not go out, for if we flee they will not set their heart on us even if half of us die; for now you are like ten thousand to us. And now it is better that you be a helper for us from the city.
gltv@2Samuel:18:4 @ And the king said to them, I will do that which is good in your eyes. And the king stood at the side of the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
gltv@2Samuel:18:5 @ And the king commanded Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, For my sake deal gently with the young man, with Absalom. And all the people heard as the king commanded the commanders concerning Absalom.
gltv@2Samuel:18:6 @ And the people went into the field to meet Israel. And the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
gltv@2Samuel:18:7 @ And the people of Israel were stricken before David's servants. And there was a great destruction on that day of twenty thousand.
gltv@2Samuel:18:8 @ And the battle was scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest devoured among the people more than the sword had devoured in that day.
gltv@2Samuel:18:9 @ And Absalom came before David's servants. And Absalom was riding on a mule, and the mule came in under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught hold in the oak, and he was lifted up between the heavens and the earth. And the mule under him passed on.
gltv@2Samuel:18:10 @ And a man saw and told Joab, and said, Behold! I saw Absalom hanging in the oak;
gltv@2Samuel:18:11 @ and Joab said to the man who told him, And behold, you have seen. And why did you not strike him to the earth there and call on me to give you ten silverlings and a girdle?
gltv@2Samuel:18:12 @ And the man said to Joab, Yes, though I weighed a thousand silverlings in my hand, I would not put forth my hand to the king's son. For in our ears the king commanded you, and Abishai, and Ittai saying, Take heed, whoever goes against the young man, against Absalom.
gltv@2Samuel:18:13 @ Or I would have dealt falsely against my soul. For no matter is hidden from the king, and you, you yourself would have set against me.
gltv@2Samuel:18:14 @ And Joab said, I will not wait this wait before you. And he took three darts in his hand and struck them into Absalom's heart while he was alive, in the midst of the oak.
gltv@2Samuel:18:15 @ And they went around, ten young men bearing Joab's weapons, and struck Absalom, and killed him.
gltv@2Samuel:18:16 @ And Joab blew the ram's horn, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab had held the people back.
gltv@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and set up a very great heap of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each one to his tent.
gltv@2Samuel:18:18 @ And during his lifetime Absalom had taken and set up for himself a standing-pillar, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, I have no son to cause my name to be remembered. And he called the standing pillar by his name and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
gltv@2Samuel:18:19 @ And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, Please let me run, and I will bear news to the king. For Jehovah has vindicated him from the hand of his enemies.
gltv@2Samuel:18:20 @ And Joab said to him, You are not a man of tidings today. But you shall bear tidings another day. And today you shall not bear tidings, because the king's son is dead.
gltv@2Samuel:18:21 @ And Joab said to Cushi, Go, tell the king that which you have seen. And Cushi bowed to Joab, and ran.
gltv@2Samuel:18:22 @ And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, Yet whatever may be, please let me run after the Cushite, I also. And Joab said, Why is this that you are running, my son? Also for you there are no tidings found.
gltv@2Samuel:18:23 @ And he said, Yet whatever it may be, let me run. And he said to him, Run. And Ahimaaz ran the way of the circuit and passed by the Cushite.
gltv@2Samuel:18:24 @ And David was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went to the roof of the gate and lifted up his eyes, and looked. And, behold, a man running by himself!
gltv@2Samuel:18:25 @ And the watchman called and told the king. And the king said, If he is by himself, tidings are in his mouth. And he came, coming on, and drawing near.
gltv@2Samuel:18:26 @ And the watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, Behold, a man running by himself! And the king said, Also this one is bearing tidings.
gltv@2Samuel:18:27 @ And the watchman said, I see the running of the first as the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, This is a good man and he comes with good news.
gltv@2Samuel:18:28 @ And Ahimaaz called and said to the king, Peace! And he bowed on his face to the earth to the king and said, Blessed be Jehovah your God who has shut up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
gltv@2Samuel:18:29 @ And the king said, Peace to the young man, to Absalom? And Ahimaaz said, I saw the great tumult, at the sending away of the servant of the king, even your servant sent by Joab, but I do not know what.
gltv@2Samuel:18:30 @ And the king said, Turn aside, stand here. And he turned aside and stood.
gltv@2Samuel:18:31 @ And, behold, the Cushite had come. And the Cushite said, News is borne, m y lord, O king! For Jehovah has vindicated you today out of the hand of those rising up against you.
gltv@2Samuel:18:32 @ And the king said to the Cushite, Peace to the young man, to Absalom? And the Cushite said, Let them be as the young man, the enemies of my lord the king, and all who have risen up against you for evil.
gltv@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king trembled. And he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. And he said this as he went, My son! My son Absalom! My son Absalom! Oh that I had died instead of you, my son Absalom, my son!
gltv@2Samuel:19:1 @ And it was announced to Joab, Behold, the king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.
gltv@2Samuel:19:2 @ And the deliverance on that day became mourning to all the people, for the people had heard on that day, saying, The king is grieving for his son.
gltv@2Samuel:19:3 @ And the people stole away on that day to go into the city, as the people steal away who are ashamed as they flee in battle.
gltv@2Samuel:19:4 @ And the king had covered his face. Yea, the king cried with a loud voice, My son Absalom! Absalom my son, my son!
gltv@2Samuel:19:5 @ And Joab came in to the king to the house, and said, You have put to shame today the faces of all your servants, those delivering your life today, and the life of your sons, and of your daughters, and the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines,
gltv@2Samuel:19:6 @ by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you, for you have declared today that there are no leaders nor servants to you. For I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us dead today, that it would be right in your eyes.
gltv@2Samuel:19:7 @ And now rise up; go out and speak to the heart of your servants. For I have sworn by Jehovah that if you do not go out, not a man shall remain with you tonight. And this would be worse for you than all the evil that has come on you from your youth until now.
gltv@2Samuel:19:8 @ And the king rose up and sat in the gate. And they announced it to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate. And all the people came in before the king. And Israel had fled, each one to his tents.
gltv@2Samuel:19:9 @ And it happened, all the people were quarreling through all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies. Yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines. And now he has fled out of the land because of Absalom.
gltv@2Samuel:19:10 @ And Absalom whom we anointed over us is dead in battle. And now why are you silent as to bringing back the king?
gltv@2Samuel:19:11 @ And king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring back the king to his house? For the word of all Israel had come to the king, to his house.
gltv@2Samuel:19:12 @ You are my brother; you are my bone and my flesh. And why are you the last to bring back the king?
gltv@2Samuel:19:13 @ And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? So shall God do to me, and more so He shall do, if you are not commander of the army before me all the days, instead of Joab.
gltv@2Samuel:19:14 @ And he inclined the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent to the king, Return, you and all your servants.
gltv@2Samuel:19:15 @ And the king returned and came in to the Jordan. And Judah had come to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
gltv@2Samuel:19:16 @ And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, from Bahurim, hastened and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
gltv@2Samuel:19:17 @ And a thousand men were with him from Benjamin; also Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his thirteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they had rushed over the Jordan before the king.
gltv@2Samuel:19:18 @ And they had crossed over the ford to carry over the king's household, and to do the good in his eyes. And Shimei the son of Gera had fallen before the face of the king as he crossed over the Jordan.
gltv@2Samuel:19:19 @ And he said to the king, Do not let my lord charge iniquity to me, nor shall you remember that which your servant perversely did in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, for the king to take it to his heart.
gltv@2Samuel:19:20 @ For your servant knows that I have sinned; and behold, I come today, the first of the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.
gltv@2Samuel:19:21 @ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the anointed of Jehovah?
gltv@2Samuel:19:22 @ And David said, What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you are as my foe today? Shall any man be executed today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?
gltv@2Samuel:19:23 @ And the king said to Shimei, You shall not die. And the king swore to him.
gltv@2Samuel:19:24 @ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul had come down to meet the king. And he had not dressed his feet, nor had shaved his upper lip. Yea, he had not washed his garment, even from the day that he went away till the day that he came in peace.
gltv@2Samuel:19:25 @ And it happened when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
gltv@2Samuel:19:26 @ And he said, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle the ass for myself and ride on it and go with the king, for your servant is lame.
gltv@2Samuel:19:27 @ And he spoke slander against your servant to my lord the king. And my lord the king is as a messenger of God; yet you do that which is good in your eyes.
gltv@2Samuel:19:28 @ For all the house of my father would be nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and you have set your servant among those eating at your table. And what right is there to any more, even to cry any more to the king?
gltv@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said to him, Why do you speak any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba share the land.
gltv@2Samuel:19:30 @ And Mephibosheth said to the king, Yes, let him take all, since my lord the king has come in peace to his house.
gltv@2Samuel:19:31 @ And Barzillai the Gileadite had gone down from Rogelim and had crossed over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan.
gltv@2Samuel:19:32 @ And Barzillai was very old, a son of eighty years, and he had sustained the king as he abode in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
gltv@2Samuel:19:33 @ And the king said to Barzillai, You pass over with me and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.
gltv@2Samuel:19:34 @ And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
gltv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am a son of eighty years today. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? Can I any more listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? And why should your servant be any more as a burden to my lord the king?
gltv@2Samuel:19:36 @ Just a little way your servant shall cross over the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with this reward?
gltv@2Samuel:19:37 @ Please let your servant return, and I shall die in my own city, near the burying place of my father and my mother. And, behold your servant Chimham! Let him cross over with my lord the king, and you do to him the good in your eyes.
gltv@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king said, Chimham shall go over with me, and I shall do to him that which is good in your eyes. Yea, all that you shall choose of me I will do for you.
gltv@2Samuel:19:39 @ And all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed over. And the king gave a kiss to Barzillai and blessed him. And he returned to his place.
gltv@2Samuel:19:40 @ And the king crossed over to Gilgal. And Chimham crossed over with him, and all the people of Judah. And they brought the king over, and also half of the people of Israel.
gltv@2Samuel:19:41 @ And, behold, all the men of Israel were coming to the king. And they said to the king, Why have they, our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you away? For they brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him.
gltv@2Samuel:19:42 @ And, behold, all the men of Judah answered against the men of Israel, Because the king is near to us. And why is this that you are angry about this matter? Have we at all eaten from the king, or has he given a gift to us?
gltv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, We have ten hands in the king, and we also have more in David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our word was not first to bring back our king? And the word of the men of Judah was more fierce than the word of the men of Israel.
gltv@2Samuel:20:1 @ And a man of worthlessness happened to be there, and his name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin. And he blew the ram's horn and said, We have no part in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each man to his tents, O Israel.
gltv@2Samuel:20:2 @ And every man of Israel went up from following David, going after Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clung to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
gltv@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came into his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to guard the house, and fed them. But he did not go in to them, and they were shut up to the day of their death in widowhood.
gltv@2Samuel:20:4 @ And the king said to Amasa, Call for me the men of Judah within three days; and you stand here.
gltv@2Samuel:20:5 @ And Amasa went to call Judah, but delayed beyond the set time which he had set for him.
gltv@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abishai, Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do more evil to us than Absalom. You take the servants of your lord and pursue him, that he not find fortified cities for himself, and deliver himself from our eye.
gltv@2Samuel:20:7 @ And the men of Joab went out after him, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. And they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
gltv@2Samuel:20:8 @ They were near the great stone in Gibeon, and Amasa had gone before them. And Joab was girded with his war coat as his clothing; and over it was a belt with a sword fastened on his loins in its sheath. And as he went out, it fell out.
gltv@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? And Joab's right hand took hold of Amasa's beard to give a kiss to him.
gltv@2Samuel:20:10 @ And Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab's hand. And he struck him with it, to the belly, and poured out his bowels to the ground, and did not strike him again. And he died. And Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
gltv@2Samuel:20:11 @ And a man stood beside him, of the young men of Joab; and he said, Whoever delights in Joab, and whoever is for David follow after Joab!
gltv@2Samuel:20:12 @ And Amasa was wallowing in blood in the middle of the highway. And the man saw that all the people stood still. And he turned away Amasa from the highway to the field, and threw a garment over him, when he saw that all who came beside him stood still.
gltv@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was taken from the highway, every man passed on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
gltv@2Samuel:20:14 @ And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and to all the Berites. And they were gathered, and went after him also.
gltv@2Samuel:20:15 @ And they went in and lay siege against him in Abel-beth-maachah, and mounded up a siege-mound against the city. And it stood against the outermost wall, and all the people with Joab were undermining, to cause the wall to fall.
gltv@2Samuel:20:16 @ And a wise woman called out of the city, Hear! Hear! Please say to Joab, Come near here and I will speak to you.
gltv@2Samuel:20:17 @ And he came near to her. And the woman said, Are you Joab? And he said, I am. And she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. And he said, I am listening.
gltv@2Samuel:20:18 @ And she spoke, saying, They spoke often in days gone by, saying, Surely they will ask at Abel, and so they ended all dispute.
gltv@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am of the peaceful, faithful ones of Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?
gltv@2Samuel:20:20 @ And Joab answered and said, Far be it! Far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy.
gltv@2Samuel:20:21 @ The case is not such. For a man of the hills of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri is his name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. If you will give him up by himself, then I will go away from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head will be thrown over the wall to you.
gltv@2Samuel:20:22 @ And the woman came to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. And he blew the ram's horn, and they were dispersed from the city, each man to his tents. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.
gltv@2Samuel:20:23 @ And Joab was over all the army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites.
gltv@2Samuel:20:24 @ And Adoram was over the forced labor, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder.
gltv@2Samuel:20:25 @ And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
gltv@2Samuel:20:26 @ And also Ira the Jairite was a priest to David.
gltv@2Samuel:21:1 @ And there was a famine in the days of David, three years, year after year. And David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul and for his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.
gltv@2Samuel:21:2 @ And the king called for the Gibeonites and said to them (as to the Gibeonites, they were not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them) and Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.
gltv@2Samuel:21:3 @ And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I atone, and you bless the inheritance of Jehovah?
gltv@2Samuel:21:4 @ And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have neither silver nor gold by Saul and by his house. Also, we will have no man in Israel put to death. And he said, What you say, I will do for you.
gltv@2Samuel:21:5 @ And they said to the king, The man who destroyed us and schemed against us that we be wasted from standing in all the border of Israel was Saul.
gltv@2Samuel:21:6 @ Let be given to us seven men of his sons to us. And we will expose them to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will deliver them.
gltv@2Samuel:21:7 @ But the king spared Jonathan's son Mephibosheth the son of Saul because of the oath of Jehovah that was between them, between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.
gltv@2Samuel:21:8 @ And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth. And he took the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
gltv@2Samuel:21:9 @ And he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they exposed them in the mountain before Jehovah. And the seven fell together. And they were executed in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
gltv@2Samuel:21:10 @ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and stretched it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens. And she did not allow a bird of the heavens to rest on them by day nor the beast of the field by night.
gltv@2Samuel:21:11 @ And that which Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Saul's concubine, had done was told to David.
gltv@2Samuel:21:12 @ And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of his son Jonathan from the rulers of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the plaza of Beth-shan, there where the Philistines hanged them in the day the Philistines struck Saul in Gilboa.
gltv@2Samuel:21:13 @ And he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from there, and they gathered up the bones of those hanged.
gltv@2Samuel:21:14 @ And they buried the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying place of his father Kish, and did all that the king had commanded. And afterward God heard prayer for the land.
gltv@2Samuel:21:15 @ And again the Philistines warred with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him. And they fought with the Philistines. And David was weary.
gltv@2Samuel:21:16 @ And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of Rapha the giant, the weight of his spear being three hundred bronze shekels in weight, and was girded with a new sword, even he said to strike David.
gltv@2Samuel:21:17 @ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall not again go out with us to battle, that you not put out the lamp of Israel.
gltv@2Samuel:21:18 @ And it happened after this that the battle was again in Gob of the Philistines. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite struck Saph, who was among the sons of Rapha.
gltv@2Samuel:21:19 @ And again the battle was in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite struck Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear was like a weaver's beam.
gltv@2Samuel:21:20 @ And again the battle was in Gath, and there was a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands were six, and the fingers of his feet six, twenty four in number. And he also had been born to Rapha.
gltv@2Samuel:21:21 @ And he cursed Israel; and Jonathan, the son of David's brother Shimeah, struck him.
gltv@2Samuel:21:22 @ These four here born to Rapha the giant in Gath. And they fell by the hand of David, by the hand of his servants.
gltv@2Samuel:22:1 @ And David spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.
gltv@2Samuel:22:2 @ And he said: Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my Deliverer.
gltv@2Samuel:22:3 @ My God is my rock; I shall take refuge in Him; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge! My Savior, You shall save me from violence.
gltv@2Samuel:22:4 @ I call on Jehovah, the One to be praised; and I shall be saved from my enemies.
gltv@2Samuel:22:5 @ When the waves of death surround me, the floods of the ungodly terrify me,
gltv@2Samuel:22:6 @ the cords of Sheol are all around me, the snares of death confronted me
gltv@2Samuel:22:7 @ in my distress I called on Jehovah, and I called to my God. And He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry was in His ears.
gltv@2Samuel:22:8 @ And the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the heavens were troubled, and were shaken; for He was angry.
gltv@2Samuel:22:9 @ Smoke rose up in His nostrils, and fire devoured out of His mouth; coals were kindled by it.
gltv@2Samuel:22:10 @ And He bowed the heavens and came down, and thick darkness was under His feet.
gltv@2Samuel:22:11 @ And He rode on a cherub, and did fly, and was seen on the wings of the wind.
gltv@2Samuel:22:12 @ And He made darkness pavilions all around Him, the gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
gltv@2Samuel:22:13 @ From the brightness before Him were brands of fire kindled!
gltv@2Samuel:22:14 @ Jehovah thundered from the heavens, and the Most High gave forth His voice.
gltv@2Samuel:22:15 @ And He sent forth arrows and scattered them; lightning, and troubled them;
gltv@2Samuel:22:16 @ and the channels of the sea appeared; the world's foundations were revealed by the rebuke of Jehovah, from the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
gltv@2Samuel:22:17 @ He sent from above; He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
gltv@2Samuel:22:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were stronger than I.
gltv@2Samuel:22:19 @ They confronted me in the day of my calamity, and Jehovah was my support;
gltv@2Samuel:22:20 @ and He brought me out to a large place; He delivered me, for He delighted in me.
gltv@2Samuel:22:21 @ Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands, He has repaid me.
gltv@2Samuel:22:22 @ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not acted wickedly against my God.
gltv@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all His judgments were before me. As to His statutes, I did not turn away from them.
gltv@2Samuel:22:24 @ And I was blameless before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
gltv@2Samuel:22:25 @ And Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His eyes.
gltv@2Samuel:22:26 @ With the faithful You shall show Yourself faithful; with the upright man, You will show Yourself upright.
gltv@2Samuel:22:27 @ With the pure, You will show Yourself pure, and with the perverted You will appear perverse.
gltv@2Samuel:22:28 @ And You shall save the afflicted people, and Your eyes are on the haughty, whom You bring low.
gltv@2Samuel:22:29 @ For You are my lamp, O Jehovah; and Jehovah shall light up my darkness.
gltv@2Samuel:22:30 @ For by You I have run through a troop; by my God I have leaped over a wall.
gltv@2Samuel:22:31 @ As for God, His way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tested; He is a shield to all those who seek refuge in Him.
gltv@2Samuel:22:32 @ For who is God except Jehovah? And who is a rock except our God?
gltv@2Samuel:22:33 @ God is my strong fortress; and He sets the blameless free in his way,
gltv@2Samuel:22:34 @ making my feet like hinds' feet, even causing me to stand on my high places;
gltv@2Samuel:22:35 @ teaching my hands for battle, so that my hands may bend a bow of bronze.
gltv@2Samuel:22:36 @ And You have given to me the shield of Your salvation; and Your condescension has made me great.
gltv@2Samuel:22:37 @ You have enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
gltv@2Samuel:22:38 @ I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them; and I did not turn until they were consumed.
gltv@2Samuel:22:39 @ And I consumed them, and struck them, and they did not rise; but fell under my feet.
gltv@2Samuel:22:40 @ Yea, You girded me with might for battle; You caused those rising against me to bow under me.
gltv@2Samuel:22:41 @ And You gave to me the necks of my enemies; those hating me I silenced.
gltv@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, and there was none to save; to Jehovah, and He did not answer them.
gltv@2Samuel:22:43 @ And I beat them as the dust of the earth; I crushed them small as the mire of the streets; I spread them out.
gltv@2Samuel:22:44 @ And You delivered me from the strivings of my people; You kept me as the head of the nations; a people I have not known served me.
gltv@2Samuel:22:45 @ The sons of strangers submit to me; at the hearing of the ear they listen to me.
gltv@2Samuel:22:46 @ Thee sons of strangers fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
gltv@2Samuel:22:47 @ Jehovah lives! And blessed is the rock of my salvation.
gltv@2Samuel:22:48 @ He is God who is giving vengeance for me, and brings down peoples under me,
gltv@2Samuel:22:49 @ and brings me forth from my enemies; yea, You raise me up above those rising up against me; You deliver me from the violent man.
gltv@2Samuel:22:50 @ On account of this I will confess You, Jehovah, among nations. and I will sing praise to Your name.
gltv@2Samuel:22:51 @ A tower of salvation is He to His king; even doing mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, until forever!
gltv@2Samuel:23:1 @ And these are the last words of David, the saying of David the son of Jesse, and the saying of the man raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel:
gltv@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of Jehovah has spoken by me, and His Word is on my tongue.
gltv@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me: One ruling over man righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
gltv@2Samuel:23:4 @ is as the light of the morning, as the sun shines; a morning without clouds; through shining after rain the tender grass sprouts from the earth.
gltv@2Samuel:23:5 @ For is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things, and sure; for all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?
gltv@2Samuel:23:6 @ As to the ungodly, all of them shall be as a thorn driven away; for they cannot be taken by the hand;
gltv@2Samuel:23:7 @ but the man who shall touch them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear; they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.
gltv@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of the mighty ones who were called to David: Josheb-basshebeth the Tachmonite, chief of the three. He was called Adino the Eznite, because of the eight hundred he killed at one time.
gltv@2Samuel:23:9 @ And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the son of Ahohite. He was of the three mighty men with David when they taunted the Philistines, when they were gathered there to battle; and the men of Israel went up;
gltv@2Samuel:23:10 @ he rose up and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And Jehovah worked a great salvation on that day, and the people returned after him only to plunder.
gltv@2Samuel:23:11 @ And next was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines had gathered into a company, and there was a piece of ground full of lentils, and the people had fled before the Philistines.
gltv@2Samuel:23:12 @ And he set himself in the midst of the plot, and delivered it, and struck the Philistines. And Jehovah worked out a great salvation.
gltv@2Samuel:23:13 @ And three of the thirty commanders went down and came to the harvest, to David, to the cave of Adullam. And the company of the Philistines was camping in the Valley of the Giants.
gltv@2Samuel:23:14 @ And David was then in a stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
gltv@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David longed, and said, Who shall give me drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem beside the gate?
gltv@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty ones cut through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem beside the gate, and took it up, and brought it to David. But he was not willing to drink it, and poured it out to Jehovah;
gltv@2Samuel:23:17 @ and said, Far be it from me, O Jehovah, to do this; is it not the blood of the men who went with their lives? And he was not willing to drink it. The three mighty ones did these things.
gltv@2Samuel:23:18 @ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was the commander of three. And he raised up his spear against three hundred, and killed them. And he had the name among the three.
gltv@2Samuel:23:19 @ Surely he was honored more than the three? And he was the commander to them, but he did not come to the first three.
gltv@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada from Kabzeel, a son of a mighty man, great in deeds; he killed two lionlike men of Moab. And he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a day of snow.
gltv@2Samuel:23:21 @ And he killed an Egyptian, a man of form; and a spear was in the Egyptian's hand; and he went down to him with a staff and tore away the spear from the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
gltv@2Samuel:23:22 @ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among three mighty ones.
gltv@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was more honored than the thirty, but he did not come to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
gltv@2Samuel:23:24 @ Asahel the brother of Joab was of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem;
gltv@2Samuel:23:25 @ Shammah the Harodite; Elika the Harodite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:26 @ Helez the Paltite; Ira the son of Ikkesh, the Tekoite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abiezer the Anathothite; Mebunnai the Hushathite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Ahohite; Maharai the Netophathite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:29 @ Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite; Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin;
gltv@2Samuel:23:30 @ Benaiah the Pirathonite; Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash;
gltv@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abialbon the Arbathite; Azmaveth the Barhumite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:32 @ Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen; Jonathan;
gltv@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Hararite; Ahiam the son of Sharar, the Hararite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite; Eliam the son of Ahithophel, the Gilonite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:35 @ Hezrai the Carmelite; Paarai the Arbite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:36 @ Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah; Bani the Gadite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, armor-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah;
gltv@2Samuel:23:38 @ Ira the Ithrite; Gareb, an Ithrite;
gltv@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uriah the Hittite; thirty seven in all.
gltv@2Samuel:24:1 @ And again the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel, and moved David against them, to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
gltv@2Samuel:24:2 @ And the king said to Joab, the commander of the army with him, Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.
gltv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, Yea, may Jehovah your God add to the people, however many they may be, a hundredfold. And may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?
gltv@2Samuel:24:4 @ But the word of the king prevailed against Joab, and against the army commanders. And Joab and the army commanders went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.
gltv@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they crossed over the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the right of the city, in the middle of the Valley of Gad, and to Jazer.
gltv@2Samuel:24:6 @ And they came into Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi. And they came to Dan-jaan, and around to Sidon.
gltv@2Samuel:24:7 @ And they came into the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivite, and of the Canaanite. And they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
gltv@2Samuel:24:8 @ And they went to and fro through all the land, and came in to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
gltv@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Joab gave the count from the numbering of the people to the king. And Israel was eight hundred thousand mighty men drawing sword; and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.
gltv@2Samuel:24:10 @ And after he had numbered the people, the heart of David struck him. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. And now, O Jehovah, I pray, take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly. ![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)