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but Joab told him, Better some other day than this for bearing the message; I would not have thee tell the news to-day; here is a king’s son dead. (2 Samuel 18, 20)
Afterwards Joab bade Chusi go and tell the king what he had seen;✻ so Chusi did reverence to him, and ran. (2 Samuel 18, 21)
and cried out to let the king know of it. If he is alone, the king said, he has good news to tell. Then, as the runner came nearer, (2 Samuel 18, 25)
the watchman saw a second courier on his way, and cried out from the roof, I see a second man running all alone. He too, the king said, is a welcome messenger. (2 Samuel 18, 26)
And the watchman told him, I have marked how the first messenger runs; he runs like Achimaas, son of Sadoc. A good man, the king said; his will be good news. (2 Samuel 18, 27)
And now Achimaas cried out, Hail, my lord king! Then he bowed down with his face to the earth, to do the king reverence, and said, Blessed be the Lord thy God; he has not suffered them to escape, the men who took up arms against the king’s grace. (2 Samuel 18, 28)
Is all well, the king asked, with my son Absalom? And Achimaas answered, There was a great stir round about Joab when he sent me, thy servant, on my errand; I can tell thee no more. (2 Samuel 18, 29)
Stand aside here, the king said; and as he did so, (2 Samuel 18, 30)
Chusi came up after him; Good news, said he, for my lord the king! The Lord has maintained thy cause against the rebels. (2 Samuel 18, 31)
Then the king asked Chusi, Is all well with my son Absalom? My lord king, Chusi answered, may all thy enemies, and all that conspire to thy hurt, fare as the prince has fared! (2 Samuel 18, 32)
And with that, the king went up to the room over the gate in bitter sorrow, and wept there. O, my son Absalom, he said as he went, my son, my son Absalom! Would to God I had died instead of thee, Absalom, my son, my son! (2 Samuel 18, 33)
Word came back to Joab that the king was in tears, mourning over his son; (2 Samuel 19, 1)
