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- 2 Samuel 13:29
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So 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.
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- 2 Samuel 14:5
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“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
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- 2 Samuel 14:7
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Now 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.”
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- 2 Samuel 14:16
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For 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.’
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- 2 Samuel 14:25
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Now 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.
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- 2 Samuel 15:1
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Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.
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- 2 Samuel 15:2
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He 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,”
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- 2 Samuel 15:4
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And 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.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:5
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Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
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- 2 Samuel 15:11
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Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.
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- 2 Samuel 15:13
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Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:18
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and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
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- 2 Samuel 15:30
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But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
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- 2 Samuel 16:5
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As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.
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- 2 Samuel 16:7
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And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!
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- 2 Samuel 16:8
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The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
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- 2 Samuel 16:15
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Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
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- 2 Samuel 16:18
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“Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by this people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.
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- 2 Samuel 16:23
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Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.
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- 2 Samuel 17:1
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Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
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- 2 Samuel 17:3
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and bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”
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- 2 Samuel 17:8
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He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
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- 2 Samuel 17:14
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Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
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- 2 Samuel 17:18
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But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
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- 2 Samuel 17:24
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Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
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- 2 Samuel 17:25
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Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
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- 2 Samuel 18:10
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When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
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- 2 Samuel 18:11
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“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!”
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- 2 Samuel 18:12
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The 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.’
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- 2 Samuel 18:17
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They 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.
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- 2 Samuel 18:20
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But Joab replied, “You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but you must not do so today, because the king’s son is dead.”
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- 2 Samuel 18:24
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Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
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- 2 Samuel 18:26
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the watchman saw another man running, and he called out to the gatekeeper, “Look! Another man is running alone!” “This one also brings good news,” said the king.
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- 2 Samuel 18:27
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The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
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- 2 Samuel 19:7
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Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
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Source alternate reference: 19.8
- 2 Samuel 19:8
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So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.
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Source alternate reference: 19.9
- 2 Samuel 19:14
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So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.15
- 2 Samuel 19:16
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Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
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Source alternate reference: 19.17
- 2 Samuel 19:17
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along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
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Source alternate reference: 19.18
- 2 Samuel 19:22
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And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.23
- 2 Samuel 19:32
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Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
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Source alternate reference: 19.33
- 2 Samuel 19:41
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Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.42
- 2 Samuel 19:42
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And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
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Source alternate reference: 19.43
- 2 Samuel 19:43
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“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
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Source alternate reference: 19.44
- 2 Samuel 20:1
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Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
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- 2 Samuel 20:2
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So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Samuel 20:4
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Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
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- 2 Samuel 20:11
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One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
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- 2 Samuel 20:12
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But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.
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- 2 Samuel 20:13
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As soon as Amasa’s body was removed from the road, all the men went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.
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