(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:15

And Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon only is dead. ... Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead, for Amnon only is dead.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:16

And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come; as your servant said, so it is. ... And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept; and the king also, and all his servants, wept very bitterly.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:17

But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. ... And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:18

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom. ... And Joab sent to Tekoa and fetched from there a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray you, feign yourself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead; and come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:19

And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage, and said, Help, O king. ... And the king said unto her, What ails you?

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:20

And the king said unto the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you. ... And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, and the king and his throne be guiltless. ... And the king said, Whoever says anything unto you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore. ... Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the Lord your God, that you would not suffer the avengers of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:21

Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak one word unto my lord the king. ... For the king does speak this thing as one who is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:22

Now therefore that I have come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. ... And your handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king, it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid; for the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. ... Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:23

Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray you, the thing that I shall ask you. ... And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak. ... And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? ... And the woman answered and said, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bid me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:24

And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing. ... And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king. ... And Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found grace in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant. ... And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. ... So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king’s face.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:25

And when he shaved his head (for it was at every year’s end that he shaved it, because the hair was heavy on him; therefore, he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:26

So Absalom dwelled two full years in Jerusalem and saw not the king’s face. ... Therefore, Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:27

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come from Geshur? ... Now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me. ... So Joab came to the king and told him. ... And when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 5:28

And it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him and said, Of what city are you? ... And Absalom said unto him, See, your matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear you. ... And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:1

And it came to pass, after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray you, let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron; for your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord. ... And the king said unto him, Go in peace.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:3

And the king’s servants said unto the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall appoint. ... And the king went forth, and all his household after him. ... And the king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:4

And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and stayed in a place that was far off. ... And all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:5

Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you also going with us? ... Return to your place and abide with the king, for you are a stranger, and also an exile. ... And Ittai answered the king and said, As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will your servant be. ... The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:6

And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. ... The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Are not you a seer?

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:8

But if you return to the city and say unto Absalom, I will be your servant, O king — as I have been your father’s servant hitherto, so will I now also be your servant — then may you, for me, defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. ... Therefore, it shall be that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king’s house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:9

And the king said unto Ziba, What do you mean by these? ... And the king said, And where is your master’s son? ... And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem, for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father. ... Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, yours are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. ... And Ziba said, I humbly implore you that I may find grace in your sight my lord, O king.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:10

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, from there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. ... And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:11

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord, the king? ... And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah?

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 6:12

And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.

(Old Covenants) 2 Samuel 7:1

And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.