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  2 Samue 14-15


14:1 Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart longed for Absalom.
14:2 So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, "Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don"t use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.
14:3 Then go to the king and speak these words to him." And Joab put the words in her mouth.
14:4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, "Help me, O king!"
14:5 The king asked her, "What is troubling you?" She said, "I am indeed a widow; my husband is dead.
14:6 I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.
14:7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, "Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well." They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth."
14:8 The king said to the woman, "Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf."
14:9 But the woman from Tekoa said to him, "My lord the king, let the blame rest on me and on my father's family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt."
14:10 The king replied, "If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you again."
14:11 She said, "Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed." "As surely as the LORD lives," he said, "not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground."
14:12 Then the woman said, "Let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." "Speak," he replied.
14:13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son?
14:14 Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.
14:15 "And now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, "I will speak to the king; perhaps he will do what his servant asks.
14:16 Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from the inheritance God gave us."
14:17 "And now your servant says, "May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.""
14:18 Then the king said to the woman, "Do not keep from me the answer to what I am going to ask you." "Let my lord the king speak," the woman said.
14:19 The king asked, "Isn"t the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.
14:20 Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God-- he knows everything that happens in the land."
14:21 The king said to Joab, "Very well, I will do it. Go, bring back the young man Absalom."
14:22 Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant's request."
14:23 Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.
14:24 But the king said, "He must go to his own house; he must not see my face." So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the king.
14:25 In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him.
14:26 Whenever he cut the hair of his head-- he used to cut his hair from time to time when it became too heavy for him-- he would weigh it, and its weight was two hundred shekels by the royal standard.
14:27 Three sons and a daughter were born to Absalom. The daughter's name was Tamar, and she became a beautiful woman.
14:28 Absalom lived two years in Jerusalem without seeing the king's face.
14:29 Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So he sent a second time, but he refused to come.
14:30 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.
14:31 Then Joab did go to Absalom's house and he said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"
14:32 Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I sent word to you and said, "Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there!" "Now then, I want to see the king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death."
14:33 So Joab went to the king and told him this. Then the king summoned Absalom, and he came in and bowed down with his face to the ground before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.
15:1 In the course of time, Absalom provided himself with a chariot and horses and with fifty men to run ahead of him.
15:2 He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, "What town are you from?" He would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."
15:3 Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you."
15:4 And Absalom would add, "If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that he gets justice."
15:5 Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.
15:6 Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
15:7 At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, "Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.
15:8 While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow
15:9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he went to Hebron.
15:10 Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, "Absalom is king in Hebron.""
15:11 Two hundred men from Jerusalem had accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and went quite innocently, knowing nothing about the matter.
15:12 While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from Giloh, his hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom's following kept on increasing.
15:13 A messenger came and told David, "The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom."
15:14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, "Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin upon us and put the city to the sword."
15:15 The king's officials answered him, "Your servants are ready to do whatever our lord the king chooses."
15:16 The king set out, with his entire household following him; but he left ten concubines to take care of the palace.
15:17 So the king set out, with all the people following him, and they halted at a place some distance away.
15:18 All his men marched past him, along with all the Kerethites and Pelethites; and all the six hundred Gittites who had accompanied him from Gath marched before the king.
15:19 The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.
15:20 You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your countrymen. May kindness and faithfulness be with you."
15:21 But Ittai replied to the king, "As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be."
15:22 David said to Ittai, "Go ahead, march on." So Ittai the Gittite marched on with all his men and the families that were with him.
15:23 The whole countryside wept aloud as all the people passed by. The king also crossed the Kidron Valley, and all the people moved on toward the desert.
15:24 Zadok was there, too, and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city.
15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, "Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.
15:26 But if he says, "I am not pleased with you," then I am ready; let him do to me whatever seems good to him."
15:27 The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Aren"t you a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your son Ahimaaz and Jonathan son of Abiathar. You and Abiathar take your two sons with you.
15:28 I will wait at the fords in the desert until word comes from you to inform me."
15:29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and stayed there.
15:30 But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.
15:31 Now David had been told, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." So David prayed, "O LORD, turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness."
15:32 When David arrived at the summit, where people used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him, his robe torn and dust on his head.
15:33 David said to him, "If you go with me, you will be a burden to me.
15:34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, "I will be your servant, O king; I was your father's servant in the past, but now I will be your servant," then you can help me by frustrating Ahithophel's advice.
15:35 Won"t the priests Zadok and Abiathar be there with you? Tell them anything you hear in the king's palace.
15:36 Their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with anything you hear."
15:37 So David's friend Hushai arrived at Jerusalem as Absalom was entering the city.

  Luke 17


17:1 Jesus said to his disciples
17:2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
17:3 So watch yourselves. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
17:4 If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, "I repent," forgive him."
17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
17:6 He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea," and it will obey you.
17:7 "Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, "Come along now and sit down to eat"?
17:8 Would he not rather say, "Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink"?
17:9 Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?
17:10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, "We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.""
17:11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
17:12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance
17:13 and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
17:14 When he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed.
17:15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
17:16 He threw himself at Jesus" feet and thanked him-- and he was a Samaritan.
17:17 Jesus asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
17:18 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"
17:19 Then he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well."
17:20 Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation,
17:21 nor will people say, "Here it is," or "There it is," because the kingdom of God is within you."
17:22 Then he said to his disciples, "The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
17:23 Men will tell you, "There he is!" or "Here he is!" Do not go running off after them.
17:24 For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.
17:25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
17:26 "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
17:27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
17:28 "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
17:29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
17:30 "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
17:31 On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
17:32 Remember Lot's wife!
17:33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
17:34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
17:35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."
17:37 "Where, Lord?" they asked. He replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather."