10:019:006 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends.  For
           thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither
           princes nor servants:  for this day I perceive, that if Absalom
           had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased
           thee well.

10:019:007 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy
           servants:  for I swear by the lord, if thou go not forth, there
           will not tarry one with thee this night:  and that will be
           worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy
           youth until now.

10:019:008 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.  And they told unto
           all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. 
           And all the people came before the king:  for Israel had fled
           every man to his tent.

10:019:009 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
           Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our
           enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the
           Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

10:019:010 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.  Now
           therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

10:019:011 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
           saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the
           last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of
           all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

10:019:012 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh:  wherefore
           then are ye the last to bring back the king?

10:019:013 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? 
           God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the
           host before me continually in the room of Joab.

10:019:014 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
           heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king,
           Return thou, and all thy servants.

10:019:015 So the king returned, and came to Jordan.  And Judah came to
           Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over
           Jordan.

10:019:016 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim,
           hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

10:019:017 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba
           the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his
           twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the
           king.

10:019:018 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s
           household, and to do what he thought good.  And Shimei the son
           of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;