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2Sa 19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

2Sa 19:2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people For the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.

2Sa 19:3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
 
2Sa 19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
 
2Sa 19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
 
2Sa 19:6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends.  For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants For this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
 
2Sa 19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants For I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night And that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
 
2Sa 19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.  And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate.  And all the people came before the king For Israel had fled every man to his tent.
 
2Sa 19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
 
2Sa 19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.  Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
 
2Sa 19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house?  seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
 
2Sa 19:12: Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh Wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
 
2Sa 19:13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh?  God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
 
2Sa 19:14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.