10:019:019 And said unto the king, Let not my lord
impute iniquity unto
me,
neither do thou remember that which thy servant did
perversely
the day that my lord the king went out of
Jerusalem,
that the king should take it to his heart.
10:019:020 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned:
therefore,
behold,
I am come the first this day of all the house of
Joseph
to go down to meet my lord the king.
10:019:021 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered
and said, Shall not
Shimei
be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s
anointed?
10:019:022 And David said, What have I to do with
you, ye sons of
Zeruiah,
that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall
there
any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do
not I
know
that I am this day king over Israel?
10:019:023 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou
shalt not die. And
the
king sware unto him.
10:019:024 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down
to meet the king,
and
had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard,
nor
washed
his clothes, from the day the king departed until the
day
he came again in peace.
10:019:025 And it came to pass, when he was come to
Jerusalem to meet the
king,
that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not
thou
with
me, Mephibosheth?
10:019:026 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant
deceived me: for
thy
servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride
thereon,
and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
10:019:027 And he hath slandered thy servant unto
my lord the king; but
my
lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore
what is
good
in thine eyes.
10:019:028 For all of my father’s house were
but dead men before my lord
the
king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them
that did
eat
at thine own table. What right therefore have
I yet to cry
any
more unto the king?
10:019:029 And the king said unto him, Why speakest
thou any more of thy
matters?
I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
10:019:030 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea,
let him take all,
forasmuch
as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his
own
house.
10:019:031 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from
Rogelim, and went
over
Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
10:019:032 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even
fourscore years old:
and
he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay
at
Mahanaim;
for he was a very great man.


