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10 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then shout: Absalom has become king at Hebron!”

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18 Truly you set them in slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.(A)
19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
    swept away utterly by terrors!(B)

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that the exulting of the wicked is short
    and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
Even though they mount up high as the heavens
    and their head reaches to the clouds,(B)
they will perish forever like their own dung;
    those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
    they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(C)
The eye that saw them will see them no more,
    nor will their place behold them any longer.(D)
10 Their children will seek the favor of the poor,
    and their hands will give back their wealth.(E)
11 Their bodies, once full of youth,
    will lie down in the dust with them.(F)

12 “Though wickedness is sweet in their mouth,
    though they hide it under their tongues,(G)
13 though they are loath to let it go
    and hold it in their mouths,
14 yet their food is turned in their stomachs;
    it is the venom of asps within them.
15 They swallow down riches and vomit them up again;
    God casts them out of their bellies.
16 They will suck the poison of asps;
    the tongue of a viper will kill them.(H)
17 They will not look on the rivers,
    the streams flowing with honey and curds.(I)
18 They will give back the fruit of their toil
    and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
    they will get no enjoyment.(J)
19 For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;
    they have seized a house that they did not build.(K)

20 “For they knew no quiet in their bellies;
    in their greed they let nothing escape.(L)
21 There was nothing left after they had eaten;
    therefore their prosperity will not endure.(M)
22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
    all the force of misery will come upon them.
23 To fill their belly to the full,
    God[a] will send his fierce anger into them
    and rain it upon them as their food.(N)
24 They will flee from an iron weapon;
    a bronze arrow will strike them through.(O)
25 It is drawn forth and comes out of their body,
    and the glittering point comes out of their gall;
    terrors come upon them.(P)
26 Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;
    a fire fanned by no one will devour them;
    what is left in their tent will be consumed.(Q)
27 The heavens will reveal their iniquity,
    and the earth will rise up against them.(R)
28 The possessions of their house will be carried away,
    dragged off in the day of God’s[b] wrath.(S)
29 This is the portion of the wicked from God,
    the heritage decreed for them by God.”(T)

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Footnotes

  1. 20.23 Heb he
  2. 20.28 Heb his

38 All these, warriors arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel; likewise all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.(A)

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David’s Army at Hebron

23 These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the Lord.(A)

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So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.(A)

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13 Then hurriedly they all took their cloaks and spread them for him on the bare[a] steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain

34 There let the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’(A)

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10 But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”

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30 Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

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28 Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”(A)

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At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.(A)

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Sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel;(A) his second was Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third was Absalom son of Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;(B)

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11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.(A)

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David Anointed King of Judah

After this David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” The Lord said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.”(A)

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