by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have revealed today that [a]commanders and servants are nothing to you; for I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then it would be right [b]as far as you are concerned. Now therefore arise, go out and speak [c]kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go out, (A)no man will stay the night with you, and this will be worse for you than all the misfortune that has [d]happened to you from your youth until now!”

David Restored as King

So the king got up and sat at the gate. When they told all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is (B)sitting at the gate,” then all the people came before the king.

Now (C)Israel had fled, each to his tent.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 19:6 Or princes
  2. 2 Samuel 19:6 Lit in your eyes
  3. 2 Samuel 19:7 Lit to the heart of your
  4. 2 Samuel 19:7 Lit come upon

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