10:015:030 And David went up by the ascent of mount
Olivet, and wept as
he
went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot:
and
all the people that was with him covered every man
his
head,
and they went up, weeping as they went up.
10:015:031 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel
is among the
conspirators
with Absalom. And David said, O lord, I pray
thee,
turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
10:015:032 And it came to pass, that when David was
come to the top of
the
mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the
Archite
came
to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his
head:
10:015:033 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on
with me, then thou
shalt
be a burden unto me:
10:015:034 But if thou return to the city, and say
unto Absalom, I will
be
thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s
servant
hitherto,
so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest
thou
for
me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
10:015:035 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok
and Abiathar the
priests?
therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou
shalt
hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell
it to
Zadok
and Abiathar the priests.
10:015:036 Behold, they have there with them their
two sons, Ahimaaz
Zadok’s
son, and Jonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them
ye shall
send
unto me every thing that ye can hear.
10:015:037 So Hushai David’s friend came into
the city, and Absalom came
into
Jerusalem.
10:016:001 And when David was a little past the top
of the hill, behold,
Ziba
the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple
of
asses
saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread,
and
an
hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer
fruits,
and a bottle of wine.
10:016:002 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest
thou by these? And
Ziba
said, The asses be for the king’s household to
ride on;
and
the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat;
and
the
wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
10:016:003 And the king said, And where is thy master’s
son? And Ziba
said
unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem:
for he
said,
To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom
of
my father.
10:016:004 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine
are all that
pertained
unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech
thee
that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
10:016:005 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold,
thence came out a
man
of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was
Shimei,
the
son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as
he came.


