RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

27 And the watchman said, I think the running of the first
is like the running of Achimaatz the son of Tzadok. And
the melech said, He is a tov man, and comes with tov
news.
28 And Achimaatz called, and said to the melech, All is
well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before
the melech, and said, Blessed be vuvh your Elohim, who
has delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against
my master the melech.
29 And the melech said, Is the young man Avshalom
safe? And Achimaatz answered, When Yoav sent the
melech's eved, and me your eved, I saw a great tumult,
but I knew not what it was.
30 And the melech said to him, Turn aside, and stand
here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
31 And, see, the Kushi came; and the Kushi said, There is
news, my master the melech: for vuvh has avenged you
this day of all them that rose up against you.
32 And the melech said to the Kushi, Is the young man
Avshalom safe? And the Kushi answered, The enemies of
my master the melech, and all that rise against you to do
you hurt, be as that young man is.
33 And the melech was much moved, and went up to the
bedroom over the gate, and wept: and as he went, this he
said, Oy my son Avshalom, my son, my son Avshalom!
Would to Elohim I had died for you, O Avshalom, my
son, my son!
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And it was told Yoav, See, the melech weeps and
mourns for Avshalom.
2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning for
all the people: for the people heard that day how the
melech was grieved for his son.
3 And the people concealed themselves that day as they
returned back into the city, as people who are ashamed
flee in battle.
4 But the melech covered his face, and the melech cried
with a loud voice, Oy my son Avshalom, Oy Avshalom,
my son, my son!
5 And Yoav came into the bayit to the melech, and said,
You have put to shame this day all your avadim, who
have saved your chayim, and the chayim of your sons and
of your daughters, and the chayim of your wives, and the
chayim of your concubines;
6 In that you loved your enemies, and hated your
chaverim. For you have declared this day, that you regard
neither your princes, or avadim: for this day I perceive,
that if Avshalom had lived, and all of us had died this
day, then it would have pleased you well.
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to
your avadim: for I swear by vuvh, if you go not forth,
there will not stay one man with you this night: and that
will be worse to you than all the evil that befell you from
your youth until now.
8 Then the melech arose, and sat in the gate. And they
told to all the people, saying, See, the melech does sit in
the gate. And all the people came before the melech: for
Yisrael had fled every man to his tent.
9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the
tribes of Yisrael, saying, The melech saved us out of the
hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand
of the Plishtim; but now he is fled out of the land for
Avshalom.
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10 And Avshalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in
battle. Now therefore why are you silent about bringing
the melech back?
11 And melech Dawid sent to Tzadok and to Aviathar the
Kohanim, saying, Speak to the zechanim of Yahudah,
saying, Why are you the last to bring the melech back to
his bayit? Seeing the talk of kol Yisrael has come to the
melech, even to his bayit.
12 You are my brothers, you are my bones and my flesh:
why then are you the last to bring back the melech?
13 And say to Amasa, Are you not of my bone, and of my
flesh? Elohim do so to me, and more also, if you are not
captain of the army before me continually in place of
Yoav.
14 And he bowed the lev of all the men of Yahudah, even
as the lev of one man; so that they sent this word to the
melech, Return, and all your avadim.
15 So the melech returned, and came to the Yarden River.
And Yahudah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the melech,
to accompany the melech over the Yarden River.
16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benyamite, who was of
Bachurim, hurried and came down with the men of
Yahudah to meet melech Dawid.
17 And there were a thousand men of Benyamin with
him, and Tziva the eved of the bayit of Shaul, and his
fifteen sons and his twenty avadim with him; and they
went over the Yarden River before the melech.
18 And they built rafts to bring over the melech's
household, and to do what he thought tov. And Shimei the
son of Gera fell down before the melech, as he crossed
over the Yarden River;
19 And said to the melech, Let not my master impute
Torah violations to me, neither remember that which your
eved did perversely the day that my master the melech
went out of Yahrushalayim, that the melech should take it
to his lev.
20 For your eved does know that I have sinned: therefore,
see, I have come today as the first of all of Beit Yoseph to
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21 But Avishai the son of Tzuruyah answered and said,
Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed
vuvh's anointed?
22 And Dawid said, What have I to do with you, you sons
of Tzuruyah, that you should this day be adversaries to me?
Shall there any man be put to death this day in Yisrael? For
do not I know that I am this day melech over Yisrael?
23 Therefore the melech said to Shimei, You shall not die.
And the melech swore to him.
24 And Mephibosheth the son of Shaul came down to meet
the melech, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed
his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the melech
departed until the day he came again in shalom.
25 And it came to pass, when he had come to
Yahrushalayim to meet the melech, that the melech said to
him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
26 And he answered, My master, O melech, my eved
deceived me: for your eved said, I will saddle myself a
donkey, that I may ride on it, and go to the melech; because
your eved is lame.
27 And he has slandered your eved to my master the
melech; but my master the melech is as a heavenly malach
of Elohim: do therefore what is tov in your eyes.
28 For all of my abba's bayit were but dead men before my