These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 18
Tanakh 33 verses
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And numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
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- 2 And sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the said unto the people: ‘I will surely go forth with you myself also.’
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But the people said: ‘Thou 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 thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succour us out of the city.’
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And the said unto them: ‘What seemeth you best I will do.’ And the stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
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And the commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying: ‘Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with .’ And all the people heard when the gave all the captains charge concerning .
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So the people went out into the field against ; and the battle was in the forest of .
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- 7 And the people of were smitten there before the servants of , and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
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For the battle was there spread over the of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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- 9 And chanced to meet the servants of . And was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
- 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said: ‘Behold, I saw hanging in a terebinth.’
- 11 And Joab said unto the man that told him: ‘And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.’
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And the man said unto Joab: ‘Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man .
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Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against mine own life—and there is no matter hid from the —then thou thyself wouldest have stood aloof.’
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Then said Joab: ‘I may not tarry thus with thee.’ And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the of , while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth.
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- 15 And ten young men that bore Joab’s armour compassed about and smote , and slew him.
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And Joab blew the horn, and the people returned from pursuing after ; for Joab held back the people.
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And they took , and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all fled every one to his tent.—
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- 18 Now in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said: ‘I have no son to keep my in remembrance’; and he called the pillar after his own ; and it is called Absalom’s monument unto this day.
- 19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok: ‘Let me now run, and bear the tidings, how that hath avenged him of his enemies.’
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And Joab said unto him: ‘Thou shalt not be the bearer of tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, forasmuch as the king’s son is dead.’
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- 21 Then said Joab to the Cushite: ‘Go tell the what thou hast seen.’ And the Cushite bowed down unto Joab, and ran.
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Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab: ‘But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite.’ And Joab said: ‘Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?’
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But come what may, [said he,] I will run.’ And he said unto him: ‘Run.’ Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and overran the Cushite.
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Now sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
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- 25 And the watchman cried, and told the . And the said: ‘If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.’ And he came apace, and drew near.
- 26 And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said: ‘Behold another man running alone.’ And the said: ‘He also bringeth tidings.’
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And the watchman said: ‘I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.’ And the said: ‘He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.’
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- 28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the : ‘All is well.’ And he bowed down before the with his to the earth, and said: ‘Blessed be thy , who hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the .’
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And the said: ‘Is it well with the young man ?’ And Ahimaaz answered: ‘When Joab sent the king’s , and me thy , I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.’
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- 30 And the said: ‘Turn aside, and stand here.’ And he turned aside, and stood still.
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And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said: ‘Tidings for my lord the ; for hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.’
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And the said unto the Cushite: ‘Is it well with the young man ?’ And the Cushite answered: ‘The enemies of my lord the and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.’
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And the was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said: ‘O my son , my son, my son ! would I had died for thee, O , my son, my son!’
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