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)
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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 19
Tanakh 43 verses
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And it was told Joab: ‘Behold, the weepeth and mourneth for .’
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And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people; for the people heard say that day: ‘The grieveth for his son.’
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And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
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And the covered his , and the cried with a loud voice: ‘O my son , O , my son, my son!’
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And Joab came into the house to the , and said: ‘Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who 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;
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in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
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Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak to the of thy servants; for I swear by , if thou go not forth, there will not tarry a man with thee this night; and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now.’
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Then the arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying: ‘Behold, the doth sit in the gate’; and all the people came before the . Now had fled every man to his tent.
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- 9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of , saying: ‘The delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from .
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And , whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now, therefore, why speak ye not a of bringing the back?’
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And sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying: ‘Speak unto the elders of , saying: Why are ye the last to bring the back to his house?—For the speech of all was come to the , to bring him to his house.—
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Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my ; wherefore then should ye be the last to bring back the ?
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- 13 And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my ? do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.’
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And he bowed the of all the men of , even as the of one man; so that they sent unto the : ‘Return thou, and all thy servants.’
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So the returned, and came to the . And came to , to go to meet the , to bring the over the .
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And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, made haste and came down with the men of to meet .
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And there were a thousand men of with him, and Ziba the of the house of , and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they rushed into the before the .
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And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the , when he would go over the .
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- 19 And he said unto the : ‘Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou that which thy did iniquitously the day that my lord the went out of , that the should take it to his .
- 20 For thy doth that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of to go down to meet my lord the .’
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But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said: ‘Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’S anointed?’
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And said: ‘What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in ? for do not I that I am this day over ?’
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And the said unto Shimei: ‘Thou shalt not die.’ And the swore unto him.
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And Mephibosheth the son of came down to meet the ; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the departed until the day he came home in .
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And it came to pass, when he was come to to meet the , that the said unto him: ‘Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?’
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And he answered: ‘My lord, O , my deceived me; for thy said: I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the ; because thy is lame.
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And he hath slandered thy unto my lord the ; but my lord the is as an of ; do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
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For all my father’s house were deserving of death at the hand of my lord the ; yet didst thou set thy among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet? or why should I cry any more unto the ?’
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And the said unto him: ‘Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say: Thou and Ziba divide the land.’
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And Mephibosheth said unto the : ‘Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the is come in unto his own house.’
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And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he passed on to with the , to bring him on the way over the .
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- 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old; and he had provided the with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
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And the said unto Barzillai: ‘Come thou over with me, and I will sustain thee with me in .’
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And Barzillai said unto the : ‘How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the unto ?
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- 35 I am this day fourscore years old; can I discern between good and bad? can thy taste what I eat or what I drink? can I any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy be yet a burden unto my lord the ?
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Thy would but just go over the with the ; and why should the recompense it me with such a reward?
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- 37 Let thy , I pray thee, turn back, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold thy Chimham; let him go over with my lord the ; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.’
- 38 And the answered: ‘Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee; and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.’
- 39 And all the people went over the , and the went over; and the kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
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So the went over to , and Chimham went over with him; and all the people of brought the over, and also half the people of .
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And, behold, all the men of came to the , and said unto the : ‘Why have our brethren the men of stolen thee away, and brought the , and his household, over the , and all David’s men with him?’
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And all the men of answered the men of : ‘Because the is near of kin to us; wherefore then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath any been given us?’
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And the men of answered the men of , and said: ‘We have ten parts in the , and we have also more right in than ye; why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our ?’ And the words of the men of were fiercer than the words of the men of .
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