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it was thy servant Joab who bade me use this parable. My lord king, thou art wise as an angel of God; nothing on earth is hidden from thee. (2 Samuel 14, 20)
This Absalom was a man of good presence and famed for his beauty, none like him in all Israel; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head was no blemish to be found; (2 Samuel 14, 25)
Why, answered Absalom, I was fain to see thee; it was my thought to send thee to the king, and ask him why he brought me home from Gessur. Better have stayed there; pray win me admittance to the king’s presence, or let him put me to death if he cannot forgive the wrong. (2 Samuel 14, 32)
He would rise early, and stand at the entrance to the gate, beckoning to him everyone who had business that called for the king’s award, asking what city he came from, and, if he mentioned one of the Israelite tribes,✻ (2 Samuel 15, 2)
So he did to all the men of Israel who came up to get a hearing from the king, and stole away the hearts of the Israelites. (2 Samuel 15, 6)
And from Jerusalem itself he took two hundred men, who went with guileless hearts, not knowing why they had been summoned. (2 Samuel 15, 11)
He also invited from Gilo Achitophel, the Gilonite that was David’s own counsellor. So Absalom began to offer his victims, and his conspiracy grew ever stronger, and the number ever greater that came to his support. (2 Samuel 15, 12)
his own servants walking at his side, and the Cerethite and Phelethite companies, as well as the Gethite warriors (six hundred foot, that had come from Geth in his retinue), marching on before him. (2 Samuel 15, 18)
and I will wait till I have word from thee before I come back from my hiding-place in the desert plain. (2 Samuel 15, 28)
At this Abisai, son of Sarvia, protested to the king, Why must this hangdog fellow be allowed to curse my lord the king? Let me go and cut the head from his body! (2 Samuel 16, 9)
And indeed, to whom is my service due, if not to the king’s own son? Thou shalt have the same loyalty thy father had from me. (2 Samuel 16, 19)
Bethink thee now, what brave warriors they are, thy father and the men he leads; how fierce in their anger, fierce as the she-bear that lurks in a wood, when her cubs have been taken away from her; thy father is a fighting man, he will not remain there among the common folk. (2 Samuel 17, 8)