pronađen 2202 Rezultati za: King Joash
I am now eighty years old; can I tell the good from the bad? Has your servant any taste for his food and drink? Can I still hear the voices of men and women singers? Why should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king? (2 Samuel 19, 36)
Your servant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king; but why should the king reward me so generously for that? (2 Samuel 19, 37)
Please allow your servant to go home again, so that I can die in my own town near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go with my lord the king; treat him as you think right.' (2 Samuel 19, 38)
The king said, 'Let Chimham come along with me then; I shall do whatever you wish for him, and anything you request I shall do for your sake.' (2 Samuel 19, 39)
The people then all crossed the Jordan, and the king, having crossed, kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and the latter went home. (2 Samuel 19, 40)
The king went on to Gilgal and Chimham went with him. All the people of Judah accompanied the king, and also half the people of Israel. (2 Samuel 19, 41)
All the men of Israel then came to the king. 'Why', they asked the king, 'have our brothers, the men of Judah, carried you off and brought the king and his family across the Jordan, and all David's men with him?' (2 Samuel 19, 42)
All the men of Judah retorted to the men of Israel, 'Because the king is more closely related to us. Why do you take offence at this? Have we been eating at the king's expense? Have we taken any position for ourselves?' (2 Samuel 19, 43)
The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah, 'We have ten shares in the king and, what is more, we are your elder brothers, so why have you slighted us? Were we not the first to suggest bringing back our king?' The men of Judah's words were even more intemperate than those of the men of Israel. (2 Samuel 19, 44)
At this all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stuck close to their king, from the Jordan all the way to Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 20, 2)
David returned to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines, whom he had left to look after the palace, and put them under guard. He provided for their upkeep but never went near them again; they were shut away until the day they died, widows, as it were, of a living man. (2 Samuel 20, 3)
The king said to Amasa, 'Summon me the men of Judah and be here yourself within three days.' (2 Samuel 20, 4)
