2 Samuel 16
16:1And David went through a little way from Ros. And behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth arrived for meeting him, and a pair of donkeys being saddled, and upon them two hundred bread loaves, and an ephah of dried grape clusters, and a hundred dried fruit clusters, and a skin flask of wine.
16:2And the king said to Ziba, What are these to you? And Ziba said, The donkeys for the household of the king to mount, and the bread loaves, and the dried fruit clusters, and dried grapes for food to the servants, and the wine to drink to the one faint in the wilderness.
16:3And the king said, Where is the son of your master? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he sits in Jerusalem, for he said, Today the house of Israel shall return to me the kingdom of my father.
16:4And the king said to Ziba, Behold, I give to you all as much as is Mephibosheth's. And Ziba said, I do obeisance, may I find favor in your eyes, O my master, O king.
16:5And king David came until Bahurim. And behold, from there a man came forth from the family of the house of Saul, and the name to him was Shimei, son of Gera. He came forth coming and cursing,
16:6and throwing stones at David, and at all the servants of king David. And all the people, and all the mighty ones of the right and of the left of the king.
16:7And thus Shimei said in his cursing, Go forth! go forth! O man of the blood sheddings, and O man the lawbreaker.
16:8The lord returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you reigned instead of him. And the lord gave the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. And behold, you are taken in your own evil, for you are a man of blood.
16:9And Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dying dog curse my master the king? Let me pass indeed! and I shall remove his head.
16:10And the king said to Abishai, What is it to me and to you, sons of Zeruiah? Even leave him, and thus let him curse! For the lord said to him to curse David. And who shall say to him, Why did you do thus?
16:11And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, the one coming forth from out of my belly, seeks my life. And moreover, now the son of the Benjamite. Leave him to curse! for the lord told him.
16:12If by any means the lord may behold in my humiliation, and shall return good to me for his curse this day -- so be it!
16:13And David went, and all his men in the way; and Shimei went according to the side of the mountain, being next to him -- he went, and cursed, and cast stones on him, and strewing dust.
16:14And the king went, and all the people with him being faint; and they refreshed there.
16:15And Absalom, and every man of Israel entered into Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
16:16And it came to pass when Hushai the chief friend of David came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, As lives the king! As lives the king!
16:17And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your act of kindness with your companion? Why did you not go with your companion?
16:18And Hushai said to Absalom, No, but following after whoever the lord chooses, and this people, and every man of Israel. serving to him I will be and I shall sit down with him.
16:19And secondly, to whom shall I serve? Should I not serve before his son? Just as I served before your father, so I will be before you.
16:20And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give counsel for yourselves what we should do.
16:21And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Enter to the concubines of your father! which he left behind to guard his house. And all Israel shall hear that you disgraced your father, and the hands of all the ones with you shall grow in strength.
16:22And they pitched the tent of Absalom upon the roof, and Absalom entered to the concubines of his father, in the eyes of all Israel.
16:23And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he consulted in the first days, was in which manner as if he should ask anything by the word of God; thus was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both to David and to Absalom.