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2 Samuel 16:13-15
New Catholic Bible
2 Samuel 16:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 Therefore, David and his men resumed their journey, while Shimei kept abreast of him on the opposite hillside, cursing as he went and throwing stones and flinging dust at him. 14 When the king and all the people with him reached the Jordan, they stopped there to rest, for they were exhausted.
15 Absalom’s Counselors.[a] Meanwhile Absalom and all of the Israelites entered Jerusalem, and accompanying him was Ahithophel.
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- 2 Samuel 16:15 Absalom takes up residence in Jerusalem and officially takes over his father’s concubines, but this is a wicked act (see Gen 49:4). It is a mockery of David; Nathan had foretold this supreme humiliation as a consequence of his sin (2 Sam 12:11-12).
