2 Samuel 19 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And it was reported to Yo’aḇ

² So the deliverance that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard on that day, saying, “The sovereign has been grieved for his son.”

³ And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

⁴ And the sovereign covered his face, and the sovereign cried out with a loud voice, “O my son Aḇ

⁵ And Yo’aḇ

⁶ by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have made it clear today that you have neither commanders nor servants, for today I know that if Aḇ

⁷ “And now, arise, go out and speak to the heart of your servants. For I swear by יהוה, if you do not go out, not one passes the night with you. And that is worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

⁸ So the sovereign rose up and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, “Look, the sovereign is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the sovereign. As for Yisra’ĕ

⁹ And it came to be, that all the people were contending throughout all the tribes of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁰ and Aḇ

¹¹ And Sovereign Dawiḏ

¹² ‘You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the sovereign?’

¹³ “And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? Elohim do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me all the days in place of Yo’aḇ

¹⁴ Thus he swayed the hearts of all the men of Yehuḏ

¹⁵ So the sovereign returned and came to the Yardĕ

¹⁶ And Shimʽ

¹⁷ And with him were a thousand men of Binyamin, and Tsiḇ

¹⁸ And they passed over the ford to bring over the sovereign’s household, and to do what was good in his eyes. And Shimʽ

¹⁹ and said to the sovereign, “Do not let my master reckon crookedness to me, neither remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my master the sovereign left Yerushalayim, that the sovereign should take it to heart.

²⁰ “For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. And see, I have come today, first of all the house of Yosĕ

²¹ But Aḇ

²² And Dawiḏ

²³ So the sovereign said to Shimʽ

²⁴ And Mephiḇ

²⁵ And it came to be, when he had come to Yerushalayim to meet the sovereign, that the sovereign said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephiḇ

²⁶ And he answered, “My master, O sovereign, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I am saddling a donkey for myself to ride on it and go to the sovereign,’ because your servant is lame.

²⁷ “And he spoke slander against your servant to my master the sovereign, but my master the sovereign is as a messenger of Elohim. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

²⁸ “For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?”

²⁹ Then the sovereign said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I have said, ‘You and Tsiḇ

³⁰ And Mephiḇ

³¹ And Barzillai the Gilʽ

³² And Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had sustained the sovereign while he was dwelling at Maḥ

³³ And the sovereign said to Barzillai, “Pass over with me, and I shall provide for you with me in Yerushalayim.”

³⁴ But Barzillai said to the sovereign, “How many are the days of my life, that I should go up with the sovereign to Yerushalayim?

³⁵ “I am now eighty years old. Do I discern between the good and evil? Does your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Do I still hear the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my master the sovereign?

³⁶ “Your servant would only pass over the Yardĕ

³⁷ “Please let your servant turn back again to die in my own city, near the burying-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham, let him pass over with my master the sovereign, and do for him what is good in your eyes.”

³⁸ And the sovereign answered, “Kimham is passing over with me, and let me do for him what is good in your eyes. Now whatever you choose of me, I do for you.”

³⁹ Then all the people went over the Yardĕ

⁴⁰ And the sovereign passed over to Gilgal, and Kimham passed over with him. And all the people of Yehuḏ

⁴¹ And see, all the men of Yisra’ĕ

⁴² And all the men of Yehuḏ

⁴³ And the men of Yisra’ĕ