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Bible Reading for April 09
2 Samuel 19
[1] And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
[2] 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. [3] And
the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed
steal away when they flee in battle. [4] But the king covered his face, and
the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
[5] And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou 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;
[6] 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. [7] Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak
comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, 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. [8] Then the
king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying,
Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the
king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent. [9] And all the people were
at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out
of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the
Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
[10] And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore
why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? [11] And king David sent to
Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah,
saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the
speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
[12] Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye
the last to bring back the king?
[13] And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so
to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually
in the room of Joab.
[14] 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.
[15] 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. [16] And Shimei the son of
Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of
Judah to meet king David. [17] 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. [18] And
there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do
what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as
he was come over Jordan; [19] 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.
[20] 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.
[21] But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put
to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed? [22] And David 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 Israel?
for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel? [23] Therefore the king
said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
[24] And Mephibosheth the son of Saul 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. [25] And it
came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king
said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
[26] And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant
said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king;
because thy servant is lame. [27] And he hath slandered thy servant unto my
lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what
is good in thine eyes. [28] For 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. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto
the king? [29] And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy
matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. [30] And Mephibosheth
said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is
come again in peace unto his own house. [31] And Barzillai the Gileadite came
down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over
Jordan. [32] Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and
he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a
very great man.
[33] And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed
thee with me in Jerusalem.
[34] And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should
go up with the king unto Jerusalem? [35] I am this day fourscore years old:
and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or
what I drink? can I 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? [36]
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the
king recompense it me with such a reward? [37] Let thy servant, I pray thee,
turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave
of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over
with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. [38] And
the king 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 Jordan. And when the king was come over, the
king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
[40] Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all
the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
[41] And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the
king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have
brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?
[42] And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because 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? [43] And the men of
Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and
we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our
advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the
men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20
[1] And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the
son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part
in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his
tents, O Israel.
[2] So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the
son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to
Jerusalem.
[3] And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women
his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and
fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of
their death, living in widowhood. [4] Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me
the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
[5] So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the
set time which he had appointed him. [6] And David said to Abishai, Now shall
Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's
servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
[7] And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue
after Sheba the son of Bichri. [8] When they were at the great stone which is
in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was
girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in
the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
[9] And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took
Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. [10] But Amasa took no
heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the
fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again;
and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of
Bichri. [11] And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth
Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab. [12] And Amasa wallowed
in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people
stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a
cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
[13] When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after
Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. [14] And he went through all
the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and
they were gathered together, and went also after him.
[15] And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up
a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that
were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. [16] Then cried a wise
woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near
hither, that I may speak with thee. [17] And when he was come near unto her,
the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto
him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. [18] Then
she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall
surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter. [19] I am one of
them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city
and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
[20] And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should
swallow up or destroy.
[21] The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri
by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver
him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab,
Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall. [22] Then the woman
went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the
son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they
retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem
unto the king. [23] Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: [24] And
Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
[25] And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: [26] And
Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
2 Samuel 21
[1] Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year;
and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for
his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. [2] And the king called the
Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children
of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had
sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of
Israel and Judah.) [3] Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I
do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD?
[4] And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul,
nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he
said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. [5] And they answered the
king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be
destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
[6] Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up
unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said,
I will give them.
[7] But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul,
because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan
the son of Saul.
[8] But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she
bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the
daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the
Meholathite:
[9] And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged
them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were
put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of
barley harvest.
[10] And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her
upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out
of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day,
nor the beasts of the field by night. [11] And it was told David what Rizpah
the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
[12] And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of
Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had
slain Saul in Gilboa:
[13] And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan
his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. [14] And the
bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in
Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the
king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
[15] Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went
down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David
waxed faint.
[16] And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose
spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a
new sword, thought to have slain David. [17] But Abishai the son of Zeruiah
succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David
sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou
quench not the light of Israel. [18] And it came to pass after this, that
there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the
Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
[19] And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan
the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the
Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. [20] And there was
yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand
six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he
also was born to the giant. [21] And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son
of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
[22] These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David,
and by the hand of his servants.
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