Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 6

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Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 8

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 9

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 10

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 11

Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 12

Jesus Revealed Pt. 8 - What Do You See?

Jesus Revealed Pt. 11 - I AM The Resurrection And The Life

Jesus Revealed Pt. 13 - No Greater Love

The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch42" data-usfm="PSA.42">
            <div class="label">42</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As the hart panteth after the water brooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">So panteth my soul after thee, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">When shall I come and appear before God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My tears have been my meat day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">While they continually say unto me, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy God?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I remember these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content">, I pour out my soul in me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">With the voice of joy and praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">With a multitude that kept holyday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">why</span></span><span class="content"> art thou disquieted in me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Hope thou in God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">For I shall yet praise him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">For</span></span><span class="content"> the help of his countenance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">O my God, my soul is cast down within me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">Therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">And in the night his song </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> with me, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> my prayer unto the God of my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will say unto God my rock, why hast thou forgotten me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> with a sword in my bones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">Mine enemies reproach me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">While they say daily unto me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy God?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">And why art thou disquieted within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Hope thou in God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">For I shall yet praise him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">who is</span></span><span class="content"> the health of my countenance, and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch43" data-usfm="PSA.43">
            <div class="label">43</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">O send out thy light and thy truth: Let them lead me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">And why art thou disquieted within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Hope in God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">For I shall yet praise him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Who is</span></span><span class="content"> the health of my countenance, and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="PSA.6">
            <div class="label">6</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, rebuke me not in thine anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.6.1"><span class="content">Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Have mercy upon me, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">; for I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> weak:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.6.2"><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, heal me; for my bones are vexed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My soul is also sore vexed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.6.3"><span class="content">But thou, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, how long?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Return, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, deliver my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.6.4"><span class="content">Oh save me for thy mercies' sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For in death </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> no remembrance of thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.6.5"><span class="content">In the grave who shall give thee thanks?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="content">I water my couch with my tears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Mine eye is consumed because of grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.6.7"><span class="content">It waxeth old because of all mine enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.6.8"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath heard the voice of my weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath heard my supplication;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.6.9"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will receive my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.6.10"><span class="content">Let them return </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> be ashamed suddenly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch121" data-usfm="PSA.121">
            <div class="label">121</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Song of degrees.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="content">From whence cometh my help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My help </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="content">Which made heaven and earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="content">He that keepeth thee will not slumber.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Behold, he that keepeth Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="content">Shall neither slumber nor sleep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy keeper:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy shade upon thy right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The sun shall not smite thee by day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="content">Nor the moon by night.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall preserve thee from all evil:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="content">He shall preserve thy soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.121.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.121.8"><span class="content">From this time forth, and even for evermore.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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King James Version

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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="2SA.17.24+2SA.17.25+2SA.17.26+2SA.17.27+2SA.17.28+2SA.17.29">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> a man's son, whose name </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.17.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched </span><span class="add"><span class="content">corn</span></span><span class="content">, and beans, and lentiles, and parched </span><span class="add"><span class="content">pulse</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2SA.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> with him, to eat: for they said, The people </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="2SA.18">
            <div class="label">18</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And David numbered the people that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thou art</span></span><span class="content"> worth ten thousand of us: therefore now </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> better that thou succour us out of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Deal</span></span><span class="content"> gently for my sake with the young man, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Death of Absalom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> under him went away. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And a certain man saw </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content">, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shekels</span></span><span class="content"> of silver, and a girdle. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shekels</span></span><span class="content"> of silver in mine hand, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none </span><span class="add"><span class="content">touch</span></span><span class="content"> the young man Absalom. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> yet alive in the midst of the oak. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath avenged him of his enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2SA.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2SA.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2SA.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But howsoever, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">said he</span></span><span class="content">, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> alone, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold </span><span class="add"><span class="content">another</span></span><span class="content"> man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a good man, and cometh with good tidings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.18.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2SA.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it was</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2SA.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And the king said </span><span class="add"><span class="content">unto him</span></span><span class="content">, Turn aside, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2SA.18.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2SA.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2SA.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And the king said unto Cushi, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thee</span></span><span class="content"> hurt, be as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> young man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2SA.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">61</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician upon Neginah, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">A Psalm</span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear my cry, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">Attend unto my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">When my heart is overwhelmed:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">Lead me to the rock </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> is higher than I.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For thou hast been a shelter for me, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> a strong tower from the enemy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">I will trust in the covert of thy wings. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For thou, O God, hast heard my vows:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">Thou hast given </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> the heritage of those that fear thy name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Thou wilt prolong the king's life:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> his years as many generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He shall abide before God for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">O prepare mercy and truth, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> may preserve him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="content">That I may daily perform my vows.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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