9以色列各支派的人都在紛紛議論：「王曾把我們從眾仇敵和非利士人手中救出來。如今他為了躲避押沙龍而逃離本國。10我們膏立為王的押沙龍已經死了，為什麼無人說請王回來呢？」11大衛王派人去對祭司撒督和亞比亞他說：「你們去問猶大的長老，『全以色列已經準備迎接王回宮，你們為什麼遲遲沒有反應？12你們是王的弟兄，是王的骨肉，為什麼遲遲沒有迎接王回宮？』13你們也要對亞瑪撒說，『你是我的骨肉，要是我不立你為元帥取代約押，願上帝重重地處罰我。』」14王的這番話打動了所有猶大人的心，他們派人去請王和王的臣僕回來。15王便啟程回宮。他來到約旦河時，猶大人都到吉甲來迎接他，要護送他過河。16來自巴戶琳的便雅憫人基拉的兒子示每也急忙跟著猶大人趕來迎接大衛王，17有一千便雅憫人跟示每一起去迎接大衛王。掃羅的僕人洗巴帶著十五個兒子和二十個僕人也趕到約旦河。18他們渡到河對面幫助王的家眷過河，為王效勞。王正要過河的時候，基拉的兒子示每就俯伏在他面前，19說：「求我主饒恕僕人的罪過！僕人在我主我王離開耶路撒冷時所犯的罪，求我王不要記在心上。20僕人自知有罪，所以今天我是整個約瑟家族中第一個迎接我主我王的人。」21洗魯雅的兒子亞比篩說：「示每曾經咒罵耶和華所膏立的君王，難道不應該處死他嗎？」22大衛說：「洗魯雅的兒子，你為何這樣說話？你今天是在跟我作對。今天在以色列怎麼可以處死人呢？難道我不知道今天我是以色列的王嗎？」23於是大衛起誓不殺示每。24掃羅的孫子米非波設也來迎接王。從王離開那天，直到大衛平安回來之日，他沒有修過腳，沒有剃過鬍子，也沒有洗過衣服。25他到耶路撒冷來迎接王，王問他：「米非波設，當時你為什麼不跟我一起走呢？」26米非波設答道：「我主我王，我是瘸腿的，我本想預備一頭驢騎著與我王同去，是我的僕人洗巴欺騙了我。27他在我主我王面前譭謗我。我主我王就像上帝的天使，請王定奪。28我父全家在我主我王面前都是該死的，但王卻讓我與王同席吃飯，我還能向王要求什麼呢？」29王對他說：「不要再提這事了，我決定讓你和洗巴平分土地。」30米非波設說：「把土地都給他吧，我主我王平安地回來就好了。」31基列人巴西萊也從羅基琳下來護送王過約旦河，然後送王上路。32那時，巴西萊已經是八十高齡了。王留在瑪哈念的時候，他曾供應王食物，因為他非常富有。33王對巴西萊說：「你跟我一同回耶路撒冷，我會照顧你。」34巴西萊說：「我何必跟王一同去耶路撒冷呢？我還能活多久呢？35我已經八十歲了，美醜難分，食不知味，樂不辨音，何必為我主我王添麻煩呢？36僕人只不過是陪王過約旦河，王何必給我這麼大的賞賜呢？37請准我回去，我好死在故鄉，葬在父母的墓旁。這裡有王的僕人金罕，讓他跟我主我王一起去。你看怎麼好，就怎麼對待他吧。」38王說：「金罕可以跟我去，我會照你的心願待他。無論你有什麼要求，我都會答應你。」39王和眾人過了約旦河以後，就親吻巴西萊，為他祝福。巴西萊返回了家鄉。40王過河後，來到吉甲，金罕跟隨著他。護送王的有猶大的士兵和半數的以色列士兵。41後來，所有的以色列人來見大衛，說：「為什麼我們的弟兄猶大人偷偷地送王、王的家眷和王的部下渡河？」42猶大人答道：「我們這樣做是因為王是我們的親族。你們為什麼生氣呢？難道我們吃了王的供應，得了什麼禮物嗎？」43以色列人說：「但我們以色列人十個支派和王有十份的情分，你們為什麼輕視我們？難道不是我們首先提出要請王回來的嗎？」 但猶大人的態度比以色列人還要強硬。
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Joab Rebukes David
1It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”2So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”3And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”5Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,6because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.7Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”
David Returns to Jerusalem
8Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.9And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.10But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”11And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?*12You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’13And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”14And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”15So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.
David Pardons His Enemies
16And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.17And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,18and they crossed the ford to bring over the king’s household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,19and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.20For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”21Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?”22But David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?”23And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath.24And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.25And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”26He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself,* that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.28For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”29And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”30And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.”31Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.32Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.33And the king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”34But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?35I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?36Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?37Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.”38And the king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”39Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.40The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.41Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”42All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?”43And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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