1 And ________ was told, “Behold, the ________
is ______________ and ________________
for ______________.”
2 So the ______________ that day was ____________ into mourning for all the people.
For the people ___________ it said that day, “The king is ______________ for his son.”
3 And the people ____________ back into the ________ that day, as ______________
who are ______________ steal away when they __________ in battle.
4 But the king _______________ his _______,
and the king ____________ out with a loud __________, “O my ______ Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
5 Then Joab came into the __________ to the king, and said, “___________
you have ___________________ all your servants who today have ___________ your life,
the lives of your ________ and ___________________,
the lives of your __________ and the lives of your ____________________,
6 in that you ________ your ______________
and ________ your _______________.
For you have ________________ today that you ____________ neither princes nor servants;
for today I ________________ that if Absalom had ___________ and all of us had ________ today,
then it would have ______________ you _________.
7 Now therefore, __________, go out and speak ______________ to your servants.
For I __________ by the LORD, if you do not go out, not one will _________ with you this ____________.
And that will be __________ for you than all the _________ that has ________________ you from your youth until now.”
8 Then the king ___________ and sat in the _________. And they ________ all the people, saying,
“There is the king, ______________ in the gate.” So all the people came _____________ the king. For everyone of Israel had fled to his ________.
9 Now all the people were in a ______________ throughout all the ____________ of Israel, saying,
“The king __________ us from the hand of our enemies, he ____________________ us
from the hand of the ________________________, and now he has _________ from the land because of Absalom.
10 But ______________, whom we ________________ over us, has died in battle.
Now therefore, why do you say ______________ about bringing ________ the king?”
11 So King David sent to __________ and _________________
the ______________, saying, “Speak to the _____________
of ___________, saying, ‘Why are you the ________ to bring the king back to his ___________,
since the ____________ of all _____________ have come to the ________, to his very house?
12 You are my brethren, you are my _________ and my __________. Why then are you the last to __________ back the king?’
13 And say to __________, ‘______ you not my bone and my flesh? ______ do so to me, and more also,
if you are not ____________________ of the ________ before me
________________________ in ____________ of Joab.’ ”
14 So he ____________ the ____________ of all the men of Judah, just as the heart of one man,
so that they __________ this word to the king: “____________, you and all your __________________!”
15 Then the king returned and __________ to the _____________. And Judah came to ____________,
to go to meet the king, to ____________ the king __________ the Jordan.
16 And ____________ the son of _________,
a __________________, who was from ______________,
______________ and came down with the men of Judah to __________ King David.
17 There were a ________________ men of Benjamin with him, and ________ the servant of the house of ________,
and his ______________ sons and his ____________ servants with him; and they went ________ the Jordan before the king.
18 Then a __________________ went across to __________
over the king’s __________________, and to do what he _______________
________. Now Shimei the son of Gera ________ down before the king when he had __________________ the Jordan.
19 Then he said to the king, “Do not ______ my lord ____________ ______________ to me,
or ________________ what __________ your servant did on the day that my lord the king
left ___________________, that the king should ________ it to heart.
20 For I, your servant, know that I have ____________. Therefore here I am, the __________ to come today of all the house of ____________ to go down to meet my lord the king.”
21 But ______________ the son of ______________ answered and said, “Shall not Shimei be put to __________ for this,
because he ____________ the LORD’s _________________?”
22 And David said, “________ have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be _______________________ to me today?
Shall any man be put to death ___________ in _____________? For do I not know that today I am ________ over Israel?”
23 Therefore the king ________ to Shimei, “You shall ______ die.” And the king ___________ to him.
24 Now _________________________ the son of Saul came __________ to meet the king.
And he had not ___________ for his ________, nor _______________
his __________________, nor ______________
his ______________, from the day the king __________________ until the day he returned in ___________.
25 So it was when he had ________ to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “______ did you not ____ with me, Mephibosheth?”
26 And he ________________, “My lord, O king, my servant __________________ me.
For your servant said, ‘I will _______________ a _______________ for myself, that I may ________ on it and go to the king,’
because your _______________ is ________.
27 And he has __________________ your servant to my ________ the king,
but my lord the king is ________ the ___________ of God. Therefore do what is ________ in your eyes.
28 For all my father’s __________ were but ________ men before my lord the king.
Yet you set your servant ____________ those who eat at your own ____________.
Therefore what _____________ have I still to _______ out anymore to the king?”
29 So the king said to him, “Why do you ___________ any more of your ______________?
I have said, ‘You and Ziba _____________ the _________.’”
30 Then Mephibosheth said to the king, “Rather, let him take it _______, inasmuch as my lord the king has come _________ in peace to his own _____________.”
31 And ______________________ the _____________________ came down
from ____________________ and went across the Jordan _________ the king, to escort him ____________ the Jordan.
32 Now Barzillai was a very __________ man, _______________ years old.
And he had __________________ the king with ___________________
while he stayed at ___________________, for he was a very __________ man.
33 And the king said to Barzillai, “__________ across with me, and I will _______________ for you while you are ________ me in Jerusalem.”
34 But Barzillai said to the king, “How __________ have I to __________, that I should go up with the ________ to Jerusalem?
35 I am ___________ eighty years old. Can I _______________ between the good and bad? Can your servant __________ what I eat or what I drink?
Can I ___________ any longer the __________ of _________________ men and singing women?
Why then should your servant be a further ____________ to my lord the ________?
36 Your servant will go a ____________ way across the _____________ with the king.
And why should the king ____________ me with such a ______________?
37 Please let your servant ________ back again, that I may _______ in my own ________, near the ____________ of my father and mother.
But here is your servant ______________; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what __________ good to you.”
38 And the king answered, “Chimham __________ cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems __________ to you. Now whatever you ________________ of me, I will do for you.”
39 Then all the _______________ went over the the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king _____________ Barzillai
and _________________ him, and he returned to his own ____________.
40 Now the king went on to _____________, and Chimham went on with him. And all the people of ___________ escorted the king and also _________ the people of Israel.
41 Just then all the men of ______________ came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our _____________________, the men of Judah,
_____________ you away and _______________ the king, his household, and all David’s _______ with him across the Jordan?”
42 So all the men of Judah ___________________ the men Israel, “Because the king is a __________
________________ of ours. Why then are you ______________ over this matter?
Have we ever ____________ at the king’s ________________? Or has he given us any ________?”
43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ______ ____________ in the king; therefore we also have more ____________ to David than you.
Why then do you ________________ us—were we not the first to _____________ bringing back our king?”
Yet the words of the men of Judah were _______________ than the ___________ of the men of Israel.
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