RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

21 And it came to pass, after they had departed, that they
came up out of the well, and went and told melech
Dawid, and said to Dawid, Arise, and pass quickly over
the mayim: for this is what Ahithophel advised against
you.
22 Then Dawid arose, and all the people that were with
him, and they passed over the Yarden River: by the
morning light not even one of them had not gone over the
Yarden River.
23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not
followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and came
home to his bayit, to his city, and put his household in
order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in
the tomb of his abba.
24 Then Dawid came to Machanayim. And Avshalom
passed over the Yarden River, he and all the men of
Yisrael with him.
25 And Avshalom made Amasa captain of the army
instead of Yoav: which Amasa was a man's son, whose
name was Ithra a Yisraelite, that went in to Avigail the
daughter of Nachash, sister to Tzuruyah Yoav's eema.
26 So Yisrael and Avshalom camped in the land of Gilad.
27 And it came to pass, when Dawid was come to
Machanayim, that Shovi the son of Nachash of Ravah of
the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of
Lo-Devar, and Barzillai the Giladi of Rogelim,
28 Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and
wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans,
and lentils, and parched pulse,
29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows,
for Dawid, and for the people that were with him, to eat:
for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and
thirsty, in the wilderness.
And Dawid numbered the people that were with him,
and set officers of thousands and officers of hundreds
over them.
2 And Dawid sent out a third part of the people under the
hand of Yoav, and a third part under the hand of Avishai
the son of Tzuruyah, Yoav's brother, and a third part
under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the melech said to
the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
3 But the people answered, You shall not go forth: for if
we flee away, they will not care about us; neither if half
of us die, will they care about us: but now you are worth
ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that you
support us out of the city.
4 And the melech said to them, What seems to you best I
will do. And the melech stood beside the gate, and all the
people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
5 And the melech commanded Yoav and Avishai and
Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man,
even with Avshalom. So all the people heard when the
melech gave all the officers orders concerning Avshalom.
6 So the people went out into the field against Yisrael:
and the battle was in the forest of Efrayim; 834
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7 There the people of Yisrael were slain before the
avadim of Dawid, and there was there a great slaughter
that day of twenty thousand men.
8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the
country: and the forest devoured more people that day
than the sword devoured.
9 And Avshalom met the avadim of Dawid. And
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Avshalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the
thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught hold of
the oak, and he was hung up between the shamayim and
the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
10 And a certain man saw it, and told Yoav, and said,
See, I saw Avshalom hung in an oak.
11 And Yoav said to the man that told him, And, you saw
him, why then did you not smite him there to the ground?
And I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a
belt.
12 And the man said to Yoav, Though I should receive a
thousand shekels of silver in my hand, yet would I not put
forth my hand against the melech's son: for in our hearing
the melech charged you and Avishai and Ittai, saying,
Beware that none touch the young man Avshalom.
13 Otherwise I would have brought falsehood into my
own chayim: for there is no matter hidden from the
melech, and you yourself would have set yourself against
me.
14 Then said Yoav, I won’t waste time here with you.
And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them
through the lev of Avshalom, while he was still alive in
the midst of the oak.
15 And ten young men that bore Yoav's armor also
surrounded and smote Avshalom, and killed him.
16 And Yoav blew the shofar, and the people returned
from pursuing after Yisrael: for Yoav held back the
people.
17 And they took Avshalom, and cast him into a great pit
in the forest, and laid a very great heap of stones upon
him: and kol Yisrael fled every one to his tent.
18 Now Avshalom in his lifetime had taken and built up
for himself a pillar, which is in the melech's valley: for he
said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and
he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called to
this day, Avshalom's Monument.
19 Then said Achimaatz the son of Tzadok, Let me now
run, and bear the melech news, how that vuvh has
avenged him of his enemies.
20 And Yoav said to him, You shall not bear news this
day, but you shall bear news another day: but this day you
shall bear no news, because the melech's son is dead.
21 Then said Yoav to the Kushi, Go tell the melech what
you have seen. And the Kushi bowed himself to Yoav,
and ran.
22 Then said Achimaatz the son of Tzadok yet again to
Yoav, Why should not I run too after the Kushi. And
Yoav said, Why will you run, my son, seeing that you
have no news to bring you a reward?
23 But, said he, what is the difference, let me run. And he
said to him, Run. Then Achimaatz ran by the way of the
plain, and overtook Kushi.
24 And Dawid sat between the two gates: and the
watchmen went up to the roof over the gate to the wall;
and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw a man running
alone.
25 And the watchman cried, and told the melech. And the
melech said, If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.
And he came closer and drew near.
26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the
watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, See another
man is running alone. And the melech said, He also
brings news.