2 Samyèl 19

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1 Yo voye di Joab jan wa a t'ap kriye, jan li te pran lapenn pou Absalon ki mouri a. 2 Jou sa a, sòlda David yo pa t' fè fèt pou genyen yo genyen batay la. Yo tout te kagou, paske yo te pran nouvèl jan wa a te nan gwo lapenn pou lanmò pitit li a. 3 Yo antre nan lavil la san fè ankenn bri, tankou sòlda ki wont paske yo kouri pou lagè. 4 Wa a menm te kouvri tèt li, li t'ap rele: -Woy! Gason m' lan! Absalon, pitit gason m' lan! Absalon, pitit gason m' lan! 5 Joab al jwenn wa a nan chanm li, li di l' konsa: -Jan ou fè sa jòdi a ou fè tout sòlda ou yo wont. Yo menm ki te sove lavi ou ansanm ak lavi pitit gason ak pitit fi ou yo, lavi madanm ak fanm kay ou yo. 6 Ou moutre jan ou renmen moun ki rayi ou, men ou pa vle wè moun ki renmen ou. Ou fè wè jan chèf lame ak sòlda k'ap goumen pou ou yo pa di ou anyen. Jòdi a mwen wè monwa ta pi kontan si Absalon te vivan, epi nou tout nou te mouri. 7 Koulye a, monwa, leve non! Al pale ak moun pa ou yo pou ankouraje yo. Si ou pa fè sa, mwen fè sèman devan Bondye, denmen maten p'ap gen yon moun k'ap kanpe avè ou ankò. Malè sa a pral pi rèd pase tout malè ki janm tonbe sou ou depi ou te jenn gason rive jounen jòdi a. 8 Wa a leve vre, li vin chita bò pòtay lavil la. Lè sòlda yo vin konn sa, yo tout vin sanble bò kote l'. Moun peyi Izrayèl yo menm te kouri ale chak moun lakay yo. 9 Nan tou peyi Izrayèl la, moun t'ap diskite, yo t'ap di: -Wa David te delivre nou anba men lènmi nou yo. Li te sove nou anba men moun peyi Filisti yo. Men koulye a, li kouri kite peyi a poutèt Absalon. 10 Nou te fè /seremoni pou mete Absalon wa peyi a. Men li mouri nan lagè. Sa ki kenbe nou koulye a pou nou fè wa David tounen ankò? 11 Antan wa a lakay li, li vin konnen tou sa pèp la t'ap di. Lamenm, li voye yon mesaj bay Zadòk ak Abyata, li di yo: -Pale ak chèf fanmi moun peyi Jida yo. Mande yo poukisa se pa yo menm premye moun ki chache fè wa a tounen lakay li. 12 Di yo se fanmi m' yo ye, menm ras avè m'. Poukisa se yo menm dènye moun ki pou fè m' tounen nan palè a? 13 n'a pale ak Amasa, n'a di l' pou mwen se fanmi m' li ye. Depi jòdi a, mwen mete l' alatèt lame mwen an nan plas Joab. Si mwen pa kenbe pawòl, se pou Bondye ban m' pi gwo pinisyon ki genyen! 14 Lè tout moun peyi Jida yo tande pawòl David yo, yo tonbe dakò ak li. Yo mete tèt yo ansanm, yo voye di l': -Ou mèt tounen ansanm ak tout moun pa ou yo. 15 Wa a leve, li pran wout pou l' tounen. Li rive bò larivyè Jouden an. Tout moun peyi Jida yo, bò pa yo, kite lavil Gilgal, y' al kontre wa a. Yo ede l' janbe larivyè a. 16 Se konsa yon nonm nan branch fanmi Benjamen an, Chimeyi, pitit Gera a, moun lavil Baourim, te kouri al kontre wa David bò larivyè Jouden an ansanm ak yo. 17 Te gen mil (01000) gason nan branch fanm Benjamen an avè l'. Ziba, domestik fanmi Sayil la, te la tou ansanm ak kenz pitit gason l' yo ak vin moun k'ap travay avèk li yo. Yo tout kouri al kontre wa a bò larivyè Jouden an. 18 Yo janbe larivyè a, yo ede moun wa yo janbe pas la. Yo fè tou sa wa a te mande yo fè. Lè wa a fè sa pou l' janbe tou, Chimeyi lage kò l' atè devan wa a. 19 Li di l' konsa: -Monwa, tanpri! Pa kenbe m' nan kè! Bliye sa m' te fè ou jou ou t'ap kite lavil Jerizalèm lan. Tanpri, pa kenbe m' nan kè! 20 Mwen konnen sa m' te fè a te mal, monwa. Ou wè jòdi a, premye moun nan tout branch fanmi Jozèf la ki kouri vin resevwa ou, se mwen menm. 21 Lè sa a, Abichayi, pitit gason Sewouya a, pale, li di konsa: -Sa pa ka anpeche yo touye Chimeyi, paske li te bay moun Bondye te chwazi pou wa a madichon. 22 Men David reponn li: -Pa antre nan koze a. Sa pa gade ou, pitit Sewouya! Poukisa jòdi a ou vle kenbe tèt avè m'? Mwen pa vle yo touye pesonn nan moun peyi Izrayèl yo, paske jòdi a mwen konnen se mwen menm ki wa peyi Izrayèl la vre. 23 Apre sa, wa a di Chimeyi konsa: -Mwen fè ou sèman, yo p'ap touye ou! 24 Mefibochèt, pitit pitit Sayil la, te vin kontre wa a tou. Depi jou wa David te kite lavil Jerizalèm lan jouk jou li te tounen san danje san malè a, Mefibochèt pa t' koupe bab li, ni li pa t' lave pye l', ni li pa t' lave rad sou li. 25 Lè Mefibochèt rive lavil Jerizalèm pou li al resevwa wa a, wa a di l': -Mefibochèt, poukisa ou pa t' pati ansanm avè m'? 26 Mefibochèt reponn li: -Monwa, se domestik mwen an ki woule m'. Ou konnen m' enfim. Mwen te mande domestik mwen an pou l' te sele fenmèl bourik mwen an pou m' te ka ale ansanm avèk monwa. 27 Domestik la al ba ou manti sou mwen. Men, monwa, mèt mwen, ou tankou yon zanj Bondye. Ou mèt fè sa ou vle avè m'. 28 Tout moun nan fanmi Sayil, granpapa m' lan, te merite pou ou te touye yo vre. Men monwa, ou ban m' dwa pou m' manje sou menm tab avè ou. Mwen pa gen dwa mande monwa ankenn lòt favè ankò. 29 Wa reponn li: -Ou pa bezwen di anyen ankò! Mwen pran desizyon m' deja. W'a antann ou ak Ziba pou nou pataje tè Sayil yo. 30 Mefibochèt di wa a: -Ziba te mèt pran tout pou li. Sa ki pi enpòtan pou mwen, se wè pou m' wè wa a tounen san danje san malè nan palè li. 31 Bazilayi, moun lavil Gilgal, te desann soti lavil Wogelim rive larivyè Jouden ansanm ak wa a. Li janbe lòt bò larivyè a ansanm ak wa a. Lè li fin janbe, li di wa a orevwa pou l' te tounen lakay li. 32 Bazilayi te yon vye granmoun, li te gen katrevenzan. Li te rich anpil. Se li menm ki te bay wa a tout pwovizyon li te bezwen lè wa a te lavil Manayim. 33 Wa a di l' konsa: -Ann ale ansanm avè m' lavil Jerizalèm non. M'a pran swen ou. 34 Men Bazilayi reponn li: -Monwa, mwen pa rete anpil tan ankò pou m' viv. M' pa wè poukisa pou m' ale ansanm avè ou lavil Jerizalèm. 35 Mwen deja gen katreven lanne sou tèt mwen. Anyen pa di m' anyen ankò. M' pa pran gou ni sa m'ap manje, ni sa m'ap bwè. M' pa tande vwa gason ak fi k'ap chante yo ankò. M' pral tounen yon chay pou monwa. 36 Epitou, mwen pa merite tout rekonpans sa a. Se annik yon ti bout chemen m' te vle fè avè ou lòt bò larivyè Jouden an. 37 Tanpri, kite m' tounen lakay mwen. Konsa, m'a mouri toupre tonm fanmi mwen. Men Chimkam, pitit mwen, ki va sèvi ou. Ou mèt pran l' avè ou, monwa. W'a fè sa ou wè ki pi bon pou li. 38 Wa a reponn li: -Bon. M'ap pran l' avè m'. M'a fè pou li tou sa ou menm w'a wè ki bon pou li. Nenpòt kisa w'a mande m', m'a fè l' pou ou. 39 Apre sa, tout moun yo janbe lòt bò larivyè Jouden an. Lè wa a fin janbe, li bo Bazilayi, li rele benediksyon Bondye sou li. Bazilayi tounen lakay li apre sa. 40 Tout moun peyi Jida yo ak mwatye nan moun peyi Izrayèl yo janbe lòt bò larivyè Jouden an ansanm ak wa a. Wa a desanm lavil Gilga. Chimkam te ale avè l'. 41 Lè sa a, moun peyi Izrayèl yo al jwenn wa a, yo di l' konsa: -Monwa, poukisa frè nou yo, moun peyi Jida yo, te vin pran ou, yo fè ou janbe larivyè Jouden ansanm ak tout fanmi ou ak tout moun pa ou yo? 42 Moun Jida yo reponn: -Nou fè l' paske wa a pi fanmi moun Jida yo pase li fanmi moun Izrayèl yo. Sa ki gen la a atò pou nou fache? Li pa janm peye manje pou nou ki fanmi l', ni li pa janm fè nou kado anyen. 43 Lamenm, moun peyi Izrayèl yo reponn moun peyi Jida yo: -Nou gen dis fwa plis dwa pase moun Jida yo sou wa a, menm si se fanmi yo li ye. Poukisa nou menm moun Jida yo, nou meprize moun peyi Izrayèl yo konsa? Pa bliye se nou menm premye moun ki te pale koze fè wa a tounen an. Men moun peyi Jida yo pale pi fò, yo fèmen bouch moun peyi Izrayèl yo.

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2 Samyèl 19:3

2Sa 19:1-8. Joab Causes the King to Cease Mourning.

3. the people gat them by stealth ... to the city--The rumor of the king's disconsolate condition spread a universal and unseasonable gloom. His troops, instead of being welcomed back (as a victorious army always was) with music and other demonstrations of public joy, slunk secretly and silently into the city, as if ashamed after the commission of some crime.

2 Samyèl 19:4

4. the king covered his face--one of the usual signs of mourning (see on 2Sa 15:30).

2 Samyèl 19:5

5. Thou hast shamed ... the faces of all thy servants--by withdrawing thyself to indulge in grief, as if their services were disagreeable and their devotion irksome to thee. Instead of hailing their return with joy and gratitude, thou hast refused them the small gratification of seeing thee. Joab's remonstrance was right and necessary, but it was made with harshness. He was one of those persons who spoil their important services by the insolence of their manners, and who always awaken a feeling of obligation in those to whom they render any services. He spoke to David in a tone of hauteur that ill became a subject to show towards his king.

2 Samyèl 19:7

7. Now ... arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants--The king felt the truth of Joab's reprimand; but the threat by which it was enforced, grounded as it was on the general's unbounded popularity with the army, showed him to be a dangerous person; and that circumstance, together with the violation of an express order to deal gently for his sake with Absalom, produced in David's mind a settled hatred, which was strongly manifested in his last directions to Solomon.

2 Samyèl 19:8

8. the king arose, and sat in the gate--He appeared daily in the usual place for the hearing of causes.

all the people came before the king--that is, the loyal natives who had been faithful to his government, and fought in his cause.

Israel had fled--that is, the adherents of Absalom, who, on his defeat, had dispersed and saved themselves by flight.

2Sa 19:9-43. The Israelites Bring the King Back.

2 Samyèl 19:9-11

9-11. all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel--The kingdom was completely disorganized. The sentiments of three different parties are represented in 2Sa 19:9, 10: the royalists, the adherents of Absalom who had been very numerous, and those who were indifferent to the Davidic dynasty. In these circumstances the king was right in not hastening back, as a conqueror, to reascend his throne. A re-election was, in some measure, necessary. He remained for some time on the other side of Jordan, in expectation of being invited back. That invitation was given without, however, the concurrence of Judah. David, disappointed and vexed by his own tribe's apparent lukewarmness, despatched the two high priests to rouse the Judahites to take a prominent interest in his cause. It was the act of a skilful politician. Hebron having been the seat of the rebellion, it was graceful on his part to encourage their return to allegiance and duty; it was an appeal to their honor not to be the last of the tribes. But this separate message, and the preference given to them, occasioned an outburst of jealousy among the other tribes that was nearly followed by fatal consequences [see 2Sa 19:40-43].

2 Samyèl 19:13

13. And say ye to Amasa, &c.--This also was a dextrous stroke of policy. David was fully alive to the importance, for extinguishing the rebellion, of withdrawing from that cause the only leader who could keep it alive; and he, therefore, secretly intimated his intention to raise Amasa to the command of the army in the place of Joab, whose overbearing haughtiness had become intolerable. The king justly reckoned, that from natural temper as well as gratitude for the royal pardon, he would prove a more tractable servant; and David, doubtless, intended in all sincerity to fulfil this promise. But Joab managed to retain his high position (see on 2Sa 20:4-10).

2 Samyèl 19:14

14. he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah--that is, Amasa, who had been won over, used his great influence in re-attaching the whole tribe of Judah to the interest of David.

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15. Judah came to Gilgal--the most convenient place where preparations could be made for bringing the king and court over the Jordan.

2 Samyèl 19:16-23

16-23. Shemei ... a thousand men of Benjamin with him--This display of [Shemei's] followers was to show what force he could raise against or in support of the king. Expressing the deepest regret for his former outrageous conduct, he was pardoned on the spot; and although the son of Zeruiah urged the expediency of making this chief a public example, his officiousness was repulsed by David with magnanimity, and with the greater confidence that he felt himself now re-established in the kingdom (see on 1Ki 2:8).

2 Samyèl 19:24-30

24-30. Mephibosheth ... came down to meet the king--The reception given to Mephibosheth was less creditable to David. The sincerity of that prince's grief for the misfortunes of the king cannot be doubted.

He had neither dressed his feet--not taken the bath,

nor trimmed his beard--The Hebrews cut off the hair on the upper lip (see on Le 13:45), and cheeks, but carefully cherished it on the chin from ear to ear. Besides dyeing it black or red colors, which, however, is the exception, and not the rule in the East, there are various modes of trimming it: they train it into a massy, bushy form, swelling and round; or they terminate it like a pyramid, in a sharp point. Whatever the mode, it is always trimmed with the greatest care; and they usually carry a small comb for the purpose. The neglect of this attention to his beard was an undoubted proof of the depth of Mephibosheth's grief. The king seems to have received him upbraidingly, and not to have been altogether sure either of his guilt or innocence. It is impossible to commend the cavalier treatment, any more than to approve the partial award, of David in this case. If he were too hurried and distracted by the pressure of circumstances to inquire fully into the matter, he should have postponed his decision; for if by "dividing the land" (2Sa 19:29) he meant that the former arrangement should be continued by which Mephibosheth was acknowledged the proprietor, and Ziba the farmer, it was a hardship inflicted on the owner to fix him with a tenant who had so grossly slandered him. But if by "dividing the land," they were now to share alike, the injustice of the decision was greatly increased. In any view, the generous, disinterested spirit displayed by Mephibosheth was worthy a son of the noble-hearted Jonathan.

2 Samyèl 19:31-43

31-40. Barzillai the Gileadite--The rank, great age, and chivalrous devotion of this Gileadite chief wins our respect. His declining to go to court, his recommendation of his son, his convoy across the Jordan, and his parting scene with the king, are interesting incidents. What mark of royal favor was bestowed on Chimham has not been recorded; but it is probable that David gave a great part of his personal patrimony in Beth-lehem to Chimham and his heirs in perpetuity (Jr 41:17).

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