1 When __________ was a little past the ______
of the ________________, there was ________
the servant of _________________________,
who met him with a _____________
of ______________ donkeys,
and on them ______ ________________
____________ of __________,
______ ______________
________________
of _______________,
______ _________________
____________ ____________,
and a ________ of ________.
2 And the king said to Ziba, “What do you ________ to do with __________?”
So Ziba said, “The ______________ are for the king’s household to ________ on,
the bread and summer fruit for the __________ ______
to ______, and the wine for those who are ____________ in the wilderness to ____________.”
3 Then the king said, “And ___________ is your master’s ______?”
And Ziba said to the king, “Indeed he is ______________
in __________________, for he said,
‘___________ the ___________
of ____________ will ______________
the ______________
of my _____________ to me.’ ”
4 So the king said to Ziba, “Here, all that ______________ to Mephibosheth is __________.”
And Ziba said, “I ____________ ______ before you,
that I may find ____________ in your ____________, my lord, O king!”
5 Now when King David came to ______________, there was a ______
from the ____________ of the house of ________,
whose ________ was ____________
the son of ________, coming from there. He came out, ______________ continuously as he came.
6 And he ____________ ____________
at __________ and at all the _________________ of King David.
And all the ____________ and all the _____________ men
were on his __________ hand and on his ________.
7 Also Shimei said thus when he ____________: “________ out! Come out!
You ________________________ man,
you __________!
8 The LORD has ______________ upon you all the __________
of the __________ of Saul, in whose place you have _______________;
and the LORD has __________________
the ______________
into the __________ of _______________ your son.
So now you are _____________ in your own ________, because you are a bloodthirsty man!”
9 Then ______________ the son of _______________ said to the king,
“Why should this _________ ______
curse my lord the __________?
______________, let me go over
and __________ off his __________!”
10 But the king said, “_________ have I to do with you, you __________ of Zeruiah?
So _______ him curse, ________________
the _________ has said to him, ‘Curse David.’ ________ then shall say, ‘______ have you done so?’ ”
11 And David ________ to Abishai and all his servants, “See how my ______ who came from by own __________
seeks my ________. How much more now may this __________________?
Let him ___________, and let him ___________;
for so the __________ has ________________ him.
12 It may be that the LORD will look on my ______________________,
and that the LORD will __________ me with __________
for his ______________ this ______.”
13 And as David and his men went along the _________, Shimei went along the ___________________
____________________ him and cursed as he _________,
threw _____________ at him and
_____________ up _________.
14 Now the king and _______ the people who were ________ him
became ____________;
so they __________________ themselves there.
15 Meanwhile Absalom and all the people, the ______ of ____________,
came to ______________________;
and _____________________ was with him.
16 And so it was, when ____________ the Archite, David’s friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, “________
_________ the king! Long live the ________!”
17 So Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your _____________
to your ____________?
______ did you not go _________ your friend?”
18 And Hushai said to Absalom, “No, but whom the ________ and this ____________
and all the men of Israel ____________, his I will be,
and with him I will _____________.
19 Furthermore, whom should I __________?
Should I not serve in the ________________ of his son?
As I have _____________ in your father’s presence,
so _________ I be in ________ presence.”
20 Then ________________ said to Ahithophel,
“Give ____________ as to what we should do.”
21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s ____________________,
whom he has ________ to keep the house; and all ____________
will ________ that you
are _________________
by your ____________.
Then the ___________ of all who are with you will be _____________.”
22 So they _______________
a ________ for Absalom on the ______
of the __________,
and Absalom _________ in to his father’s concubines in the __________ of all Israel.
23 Now the ____________ of Ahithophel, which he _________
in those _________, was as if one had ________________
at the ____________ of ______.
So was all the advice of ____________________
both with ___________
and with ______________.