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Absalom
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2 Samuel 3:3his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;2 Samuel 13:22And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.2 Samuel 13:23Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.2 Samuel 13:24And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”2 Samuel 13:25“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.2 Samuel 13:26“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.2 Samuel 13:27But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”2 Samuel 13:29So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.2 Samuel 13:37Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.2 Samuel 13:38After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.2 Samuel 14:1Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.2 Samuel 14:2So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.2 Samuel 14:3Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.2 Samuel 14:4When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”2 Samuel 14:5“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.2 Samuel 14:6And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.2 Samuel 14:7Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”2 Samuel 14:8“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”2 Samuel 14:9But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”2 Samuel 14:10“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”2 Samuel 14:11“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”2 Samuel 14:12Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.2 Samuel 14:13The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?2 Samuel 14:14For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.2 Samuel 14:15Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.2 Samuel 14:16For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’2 Samuel 14:17And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”2 Samuel 14:18Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.2 Samuel 14:19So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.2 Samuel 14:20Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”2 Samuel 14:21Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”2 Samuel 14:22Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”2 Samuel 14:23So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.2 Samuel 14:24But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the face of the king.2 Samuel 14:25Now there was not a man in all Israel as handsome and highly praised as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.2 Samuel 14:27Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.2 Samuel 15:2He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”2 Samuel 15:3Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”2 Samuel 15:4And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”2 Samuel 15:5Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.2 Samuel 15:6Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.2 Samuel 15:13Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”2 Samuel 15:17So the king set out with all the people following him. He stopped at the last house,2 Samuel 18:9Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.2 Samuel 18:10When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”2 Samuel 18:11“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”2 Samuel 18:12The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’2 Samuel 18:13If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”2 Samuel 18:14But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.2 Samuel 18:15And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.2 Samuel 18:16Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.2 Samuel 18:17They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.2 Samuel 18:18During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.2 Samuel 18:33The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”2 Samuel 19:1Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”2 Samuel 19:2And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”2 Samuel 19:3So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.2 Samuel 19:4But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”2 Samuel 19:5Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
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