RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

master the melech: yet did you set your eved among them
that did eat at your own shulchan. What right therefore
have I yet to cry any more to the melech?
29 And the melech said to him, Why speak you any more
of your matters? I have said, You and Tziva divide the
land.
30 And Mephibosheth said to the melech, Yes, let him take
all, forasmuch as my master the melech has come again in
shalom to his own bayit.
31 And Barzillai the Giladi came down from Rogelim, and
went over the Yarden River with the melech, to accompany
him over the Yarden River.
32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years
old: and he had provided the melech provisions while he
lay at Machanayim, for he was a very rich man.
33 And the melech said to Barzillai, Come over with me,
and I will feed you with me in Yahrushalayim.
34 And Barzillai said to the melech, How long have I to
live, that I should go up with the melech to Yahrushalayim?
35 I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between
tov and evil? Can your eved taste what I eat, or what I
drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and
singing women? Why then should your eved be still a
burden to my master the melech?
36 Your eved can hardly cross over the Yarden River with
the melech: and why should the melech repay me with such
a reward?
37 Let your eved, I beg you, turn back again, that I may die
in my own city, and be buried by the grave of my abba and
of my eema. But see your eved Chimham; let him go over
with my master the melech; and do to him what shall seem
tov to you.
38 And the melech answered, Chimham shall go over with
me, and I will do to him that which shall seem tov to you:
and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you.
39 And all the people went over the Yarden River. And
when the melech had come over, the melech kissed
Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own
place.
40 Then the melech went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went
on with him: and all the people of Yahudah accompanied
the melech, and also half the people of Yisrael. 836
41 And, see, all the men of Yisrael came to the melech, and
said to the melech, Why have our brothers the men of
Yahudah stolen you away, and have brought the melech,
and his household, and all Dawid's men with him, over the
Yarden River? 837
42 And all the men of Yahudah answered the men of
Yisrael, Because the melech is a near relative to us! Why
then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all
at the melech's expense? Or, has he given us any special
gift? 838
43 And the men of Yisrael answered the men of Yahudah,
and said, We have ten parts in the melech, and we have also
more right in Dawid than you: why then did you despise us,
was it not our advice first to bring back our melech? 839
And the words of the men of Yahudah were fiercer than
the words of the men of Yisrael. 840
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And there happened to be there a man of
Beliyaal, 841 whose name was Sheva, the son of Bichri, a
Benyamite: 842 and he blew a shofar, and said, We have
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no part in Dawid, neither have we any inheritance in the
son of Yishai: every man back to his tents, 843 O
Yisrael. 844
2 So every man of Yisrael went up from following after
Dawid, and followed Sheva the son of Bichri: but the men
of Yahudah clung to their melech, from the Yarden River
even to Yahrushalayim. 845
3 And Dawid came to his bayit at Yahrushalayim; and the
melech took the ten women his concubines, whom he had
left to look after the bayit, and put them in a protected
bayit, and fed them, but went not in to them. So they were
shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
4 Then said the melech to Amasa, Assemble the men of
Yahudah within three days, and be here present.
5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Yahudah: but
he stayed longer than the set time that he had appointed
him.
6 And Dawid said to Avishai, Now shall Sheva the son of
Bichri do us more harm than did Avshalom: take you
your master's avadim, and pursue after him, lest he get for
himself fortified cities, and escapes us.
7 And there went out after him Yoav's men, and the
Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men:
and they went out of Yahrushalayim, to pursue after
Sheva the son of Bichri.
8 When they were at the great stone that is in Giveon,
Amasa went before them. And Yoav's garment that he
had put on was girded to him, and upon it a girdle with a
sword attached to his loins in the sheath; and as he went
forward it fell out.
9 And Yoav said to Amasa, Shalom, my brother? And
Yoav took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss
him.
10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in
Yoav's hand: so he smote him with it in the stomach, and
shed out his insides to the ground, and struck him not
again; and he died. So Yoav and Avishai his brother
pursued after Sheva the son of Bichri.
11 And one of Yoav's men stood by him, and said, He
that favors Yoav, and is also for Dawid, let him follow
Yoav.
12 And Amasa wallowed in dahm 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 garment 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 Yoav, to pursue after Sheva the son
of Bichri.
14 And he went through all the tribes of Yisrael to Avel,
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 Avel of Beth-
Maachah, and they cast up a siege mound against the city,
and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were
with Yoav battered the wall, to throw it down.
16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Listen, listen;
Please say to Yoav, Come near here, so that I may speak
with you.
17 And when he was come near to her, the woman said,
Are you Yoav? And he answered, I am he. Then she said
to him, Hear the words of your female eved. And he
answered, I do listen.