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+<crossway-bible translation="English Standard Version" revision="2006-10-26" xmlns="http://www.crosswaybibles.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="schema/crossway.bibles.xsd"> 
+<book title="2 Samuel" num="10">
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001001"/>
+  <chapter num="1">
+    <heading>David Hears of Saul&apos;s Death</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">After the death of Saul, when David had returned <crossref let="a" cid="c10001001.1"/>from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And on the third day, behold, <crossref let="b" cid="c10001002.1"/>a man came from Saul&apos;s camp, <crossref let="c" cid="c10001002.2"/>with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, <crossref let="d" cid="c10001002.3"/>he fell to the ground and paid homage.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001003"/>
+    <verse num="3">David said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001003.1" from="10001003.1" to="10001003.2"/>Where do you come from?<q class="end-double" qid="10001003.2" from="10001003.1" to="10001003.2"/> And he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001003.3" from="10001003.3" to="10001003.4"/>I have escaped from the camp of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="10001003.4" from="10001003.3" to="10001003.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And David said to him, <crossref let="e" cid="c10001004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10001004.1" from="10001004.1" to="10001004.2"/>How did it go? Tell me.<q class="end-double" qid="10001004.2" from="10001004.1" to="10001004.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001004.3" from="10001004.3" to="10001004.4"/>The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.<q class="end-double" qid="10001004.4" from="10001004.3" to="10001004.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then David said to the young man who told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001005.1" from="10001005.1" to="10001005.2"/>How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?<q class="end-double" qid="10001005.2" from="10001005.1" to="10001005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And the young man who told him said, <crossref let="f" cid="c10001006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10001006.1" from="10001006.1" to="10001010.1"/>By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, <q class="begin-single" qid="10001007.1" from="10001007.1" to="10001007.2"/>Here I am.<q class="end-single" qid="10001007.2" from="10001007.1" to="10001007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And he said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="10001008.1" from="10001008.1" to="10001008.2"/>Who are you?<q class="end-single" qid="10001008.2" from="10001008.1" to="10001008.2"/> I answered him, <q class="begin-single" qid="10001008.3" from="10001008.3" to="10001008.4"/>I am an Amalekite.<q class="end-single" qid="10001008.4" from="10001008.3" to="10001008.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And he said to me, <crossref let="g" cid="c10001009.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="10001009.1" from="10001009.1" to="10001009.2"/>Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.<q class="end-single" qid="10001009.2" from="10001009.1" to="10001009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001010"/>
+    <verse num="10">So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. <crossref let="h" cid="c10001010.1"/>And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.<q class="end-double" qid="10001010.1" from="10001006.1" to="10001010.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">Then David took hold of his clothes and <crossref let="i" cid="c10001011.1"/>tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And they mourned and wept <crossref let="j" cid="c10001012.1"/>and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And David said to the young man who told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001013.1" from="10001013.1" to="10001013.2"/>Where do you come from?<q class="end-double" qid="10001013.2" from="10001013.1" to="10001013.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001013.3" from="10001013.3" to="10001013.4"/>I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.<q class="end-double" qid="10001013.4" from="10001013.3" to="10001013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001014"/>
+    <verse num="14">David said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001014.1" from="10001014.1" to="10001014.2"/>How is it you were not <crossref let="k" cid="c10001014.1"/>afraid to put out your hand to destroy <crossref let="l" cid="c10001014.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed?<q class="end-double" qid="10001014.2" from="10001014.1" to="10001014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Then <crossref let="m" cid="c10001015.1"/>David called one of the young men and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10001015.1" from="10001015.1" to="10001015.2"/>Go, execute him.<q class="end-double" qid="10001015.2" from="10001015.1" to="10001015.2"/> And he struck him down so that he died.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And David said to him, <crossref let="n" cid="c10001016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10001016.1" from="10001016.1" to="10001016.4"/>Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="10001016.2" from="10001016.2" to="10001016.3"/>I have killed <crossref let="o" cid="c10001016.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed.<q class="end-single" qid="10001016.3" from="10001016.2" to="10001016.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="10001016.4" from="10001016.1" to="10001016.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001017"/>
+    <heading>David&apos;s Lament for Saul and Jonathan</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">And David <crossref let="p" cid="c10001017.1"/>lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and he said it<note nid="n10001018.1"/> should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in <crossref let="q" cid="c10001018.1"/>the Book of Jashar.<note nid="n10001018.2"/> He said:</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001019"/>
+    <begin-block-indent/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="19">
+        <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="10001019.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places!<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="r" cid="c10001019.1"/>How the mighty have fallen!<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001020"/>
+    <verse num="20">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="s" cid="c10001020.1"/>Tell it not in Gath,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="t" cid="c10001020.2"/>publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="u" cid="c10001020.3"/>lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>lest the daughters of <crossref let="v" cid="c10001020.4"/>the uncircumcised exult.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="21">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="w" cid="c10001021.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001021.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>You mountains of Gilboa,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>let there be no dew or rain upon you,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>nor fields of offerings!<note nid="n10001021.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the shield of Saul, not <crossref let="x" cid="c10001021.2"/>anointed with oil.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="22">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001022.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>From the blood of the slain,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>from the fat of the mighty,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c10001022.1"/>the bow of Jonathan turned not back,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and the sword of Saul returned not empty.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="23">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001023.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely!<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>In life and in death they were not divided;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>they were <crossref let="z" cid="c10001023.1"/>swifter than eagles;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>they were <crossref let="a" cid="c10001023.2"/>stronger than lions.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="24">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001024.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="b" cid="c10001024.1"/>who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001025"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="25">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="c" cid="c10001025.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001025.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>How the mighty have fallen<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>in the midst of the battle!<end-line/>
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001025.2" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>Jonathan lies slain on your high places.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001026"/>
+    <verse num="26">
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>very pleasant have you been to me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="d" cid="c10001026.1"/>your love to me was extraordinary,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>surpassing the love of women.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10001027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="27">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="c" cid="c10001027.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10001027.1" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/>How the mighty have fallen,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and the weapons of war perished!<q class="end-double" qid="10001027.2" from="10001019.1" to="10001027.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002001"/>
+  <chapter num="2">
+    <heading>David Anointed King of Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">After this David <crossref let="e" cid="c10002001.1"/>inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002001.1" from="10002001.1" to="10002001.2"/>Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?<q class="end-double" qid="10002001.2" from="10002001.1" to="10002001.2"/> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002001.3" from="10002001.3" to="10002001.4"/>Go up.<q class="end-double" qid="10002001.4" from="10002001.3" to="10002001.4"/> David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002001.5" from="10002001.5" to="10002001.6"/>To which shall I go up?<q class="end-double" qid="10002001.6" from="10002001.5" to="10002001.6"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002001.7" from="10002001.7" to="10002001.8"/>To <crossref let="f" cid="c10002001.2"/>Hebron.<q class="end-double" qid="10002001.8" from="10002001.7" to="10002001.8"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So David went up there, and <crossref let="g" cid="c10002002.1"/>his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And David brought up <crossref let="h" cid="c10002003.1"/>his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David <crossref let="i" cid="c10002004.1"/>king over the house of Judah.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>When they told David, <crossref let="j" cid="c10002004.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10002004.1" from="10002004.1" to="10002004.2"/>It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,<q class="end-double" qid="10002004.2" from="10002004.1" to="10002004.2"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002005"/>
+    <verse num="5">David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, <crossref let="k" cid="c10002005.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10002005.1" from="10002005.1" to="10002007.1"/>May you be blessed by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Now may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and <crossref let="i" cid="c10002007.1"/>the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.<q class="end-double" qid="10002007.1" from="10002005.1" to="10002007.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002008"/>
+    <heading>Ish-bosheth Made King of Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">But <crossref let="l" cid="c10002008.1"/>Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul&apos;s army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to <crossref let="m" cid="c10002008.2"/>Mahanaim,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002009"/>
+    <verse num="9">and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Ish-bosheth, Saul&apos;s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="n" cid="c10002011.1"/>And the time that David was king in Hebron over <crossref let="i" cid="c10002011.2"/>the house of Judah was seven years and six months.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002012"/>
+    <heading>The Battle of Gibeon</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at <crossref let="o" cid="c10002013.1"/>the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And Abner said to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002014.1" from="10002014.1" to="10002014.2"/>Let the young men arise and compete before us.<q class="end-double" qid="10002014.2" from="10002014.1" to="10002014.2"/> And Joab said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002014.3" from="10002014.3" to="10002014.4"/>Let them arise.<q class="end-double" qid="10002014.4" from="10002014.3" to="10002014.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent&apos;s side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim,<note nid="n10002016.1"/> which is at Gibeon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">And the <crossref let="p" cid="c10002018.1"/>three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was <crossref let="q" cid="c10002018.2"/>as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Abner looked behind him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002020.1" from="10002020.1" to="10002020.2"/>Is it you, Asahel?<q class="end-double" qid="10002020.2" from="10002020.1" to="10002020.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002020.3" from="10002020.3" to="10002020.4"/>It is I.<q class="end-double" qid="10002020.4" from="10002020.3" to="10002020.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Abner said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002021.1" from="10002021.1" to="10002021.2"/>Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil.<q class="end-double" qid="10002021.2" from="10002021.1" to="10002021.2"/> But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And Abner said again to Asahel, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002022.1" from="10002022.1" to="10002022.2"/>Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?<q class="end-double" qid="10002022.2" from="10002022.1" to="10002022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him <crossref let="r" cid="c10002023.1"/>in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Then Abner called to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002026.1" from="10002026.1" to="10002026.2"/>Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?<q class="end-double" qid="10002026.2" from="10002026.1" to="10002026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And Joab said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10002027.1" from="10002027.1" to="10002027.2"/>As God lives, if <crossref let="s" cid="c10002027.1"/>you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.<q class="end-double" qid="10002027.2" from="10002027.1" to="10002027.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002028"/>
+    <verse num="28">So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002029"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="29">And Abner and his men went all that night through <crossref let="t" cid="c10002029.1"/>the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to <crossref let="u" cid="c10002029.2"/>Mahanaim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David&apos;s servants nineteen men besides Asahel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002031"/>
+    <verse num="31">But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin 360 of Abner&apos;s men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10002032"/>
+    <verse num="32">And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003001"/>
+  <chapter num="3">
+    <heading>Abner Joins David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="v" cid="c10003002.1"/>And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of <crossref let="w" cid="c10003002.2"/>Ahinoam of Jezreel;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003003"/>
+    <verse num="3">and his second, Chileab, of <crossref let="w" cid="c10003003.1"/>Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah <crossref let="x" cid="c10003003.2"/>the daughter of Talmai king of <crossref let="y" cid="c10003003.3"/>Geshur;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003004"/>
+    <verse num="4">and the fourth, <crossref let="z" cid="c10003004.1"/>Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003005"/>
+    <verse num="5">and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David&apos;s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now Saul had a concubine whose name was <crossref let="a" cid="c10003007.1"/>Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, <crossref let="b" cid="c10003007.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10003007.1" from="10003007.1" to="10003007.2"/>Why have you gone in to my father&apos;s concubine?<q class="end-double" qid="10003007.2" from="10003007.1" to="10003007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003008.1" from="10003008.1" to="10003010.1"/>Am I <crossref let="c" cid="c10003008.1"/>a dog&apos;s head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="d" cid="c10003009.1"/>God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David <crossref let="e" cid="c10003009.2"/>what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sworn to him,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003010"/>
+    <verse num="10">to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, <crossref let="f" cid="c10003010.1"/>from Dan to Beersheba.<q class="end-double" qid="10003010.1" from="10003008.1" to="10003010.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,<note nid="n10003012.1"/> saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003012.1" from="10003012.1" to="10003012.2"/>To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.<q class="end-double" qid="10003012.2" from="10003012.1" to="10003012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003013.1" from="10003013.1" to="10003013.2"/>Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, <crossref let="g" cid="c10003013.1"/>you shall not see my face unless you first bring <crossref let="h" cid="c10003013.2"/>Michal, Saul&apos;s daughter, when you come to see my face.<q class="end-double" qid="10003013.2" from="10003013.1" to="10003013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul&apos;s son, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003014.1" from="10003014.1" to="10003014.2"/>Give me my wife Michal, <crossref let="i" cid="c10003014.1"/>for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.<q class="end-double" qid="10003014.2" from="10003014.1" to="10003014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003016"/>
+    <verse num="16">But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to <crossref let="j" cid="c10003016.1"/>Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003016.1" from="10003016.1" to="10003016.2"/>Go, return.<q class="end-double" qid="10003016.2" from="10003016.1" to="10003016.2"/> And he returned.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003017.1" from="10003017.1" to="10003018.3"/>For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Now then bring it about, <crossref let="k" cid="c10003018.1"/>for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has promised David, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="10003018.1" from="10003018.1" to="10003018.2"/>By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.<q class="end-single" qid="10003018.2" from="10003018.1" to="10003018.2"/><q class="end-double" qid="10003018.3" from="10003017.1" to="10003018.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Abner also spoke to <crossref let="l" cid="c10003019.1"/>Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And Abner said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003021.1" from="10003021.1" to="10003021.2"/>I will arise and go and <crossref let="m" cid="c10003021.1"/>will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may <crossref let="n" cid="c10003021.2"/>reign over all that your heart desires.<q class="end-double" qid="10003021.2" from="10003021.1" to="10003021.2"/> So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003023"/>
+    <verse num="23">When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003023.1" from="10003023.1" to="10003023.2"/>Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace.<q class="end-double" qid="10003023.2" from="10003023.1" to="10003023.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Then Joab went to the king and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003024.1" from="10003024.1" to="10003025.1"/>What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003025"/>
+    <verse num="25">You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know <crossref let="o" cid="c10003025.1"/>your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.<q class="end-double" qid="10003025.1" from="10003024.1" to="10003025.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003026"/>
+    <heading>Joab Murders Abner</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">When Joab came out from David&apos;s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, <crossref let="p" cid="c10003027.1"/>and there he struck him <crossref let="q" cid="c10003027.2"/>in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003028.1" from="10003028.1" to="10003029.1"/>I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003029"/>
+    <verse num="29"><crossref let="r" cid="c10003029.1"/>May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father&apos;s house, and may the house of Joab never be without <crossref let="s" cid="c10003029.2"/>one who has a discharge or who is <crossref let="t" cid="c10003029.3"/>leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!<q class="end-double" qid="10003029.1" from="10003028.1" to="10003029.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003030"/>
+    <verse num="30">So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because <crossref let="u" cid="c10003030.1"/>he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003031"/>
+    <heading>David Mourns Abner</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, <crossref let="v" cid="c10003031.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10003031.1" from="10003031.1" to="10003031.2"/>Tear your clothes and <crossref let="w" cid="c10003031.2"/>put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.<q class="end-double" qid="10003031.2" from="10003031.1" to="10003031.2"/> And King David followed the bier.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003032"/>
+    <verse num="32">They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003033"/>
+    <verse num="33">And the king <crossref let="x" cid="c10003033.1"/>lamented for Abner, saying,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c10003033.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10003033.1" from="10003033.1" to="10003034.1"/>Should Abner die <crossref let="z" cid="c10003033.3"/>as a fool dies?<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003034"/>
+    <verse num="34">
+        <begin-line/>Your hands were not bound;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>your feet were not fettered;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>as one falls before the wicked<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>you have fallen.<q class="end-double" qid="10003034.1" from="10003033.1" to="10003034.1"/><end-line/>
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <end-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>And all the people wept again over him.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Then all the people came <crossref let="a" cid="c10003035.1"/>to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, <crossref let="b" cid="c10003035.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10003035.1" from="10003035.1" to="10003035.2"/>God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else <crossref let="c" cid="c10003035.3"/>till the sun goes down!<q class="end-double" qid="10003035.2" from="10003035.1" to="10003035.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003036"/>
+    <verse num="36">And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003037"/>
+    <verse num="37">So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king&apos;s will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003038"/>
+    <verse num="38">And the king said to his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="10003038.1" from="10003038.1" to="10003039.1"/>Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10003039"/>
+    <verse num="39">And I was gentle today, though anointed king. <crossref let="d" cid="c10003039.1"/>These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. <crossref let="e" cid="c10003039.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!<q class="end-double" qid="10003039.1" from="10003038.1" to="10003039.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004001"/>
+  <chapter num="4">
+    <heading>Ish-bosheth Murdered</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">When Ish-bosheth, Saul&apos;s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, <crossref let="f" cid="c10004001.1"/>his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Now Saul&apos;s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (<crossref let="g" cid="c10004002.1"/>for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="h" cid="c10004003.1"/>the Beerothites fled <crossref let="i" cid="c10004003.2"/>to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="j" cid="c10004004.1"/>Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan <crossref let="k" cid="c10004004.2"/>came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him <crossref let="l" cid="c10004006.1"/>in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.<note nid="n10004006.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004007"/>
+    <verse num="7">When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of <crossref let="m" cid="c10004007.1"/>the Arabah all night,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004008"/>
+    <verse num="8">and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10004008.1" from="10004008.1" to="10004008.2"/>Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, <crossref let="n" cid="c10004008.1"/>who sought your life. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.<q class="end-double" qid="10004008.2" from="10004008.1" to="10004008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, <crossref let="o" cid="c10004009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10004009.1" from="10004009.1" to="10004011.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, <crossref let="p" cid="c10004009.2"/>who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="q" cid="c10004010.1"/>when one told me, <q class="begin-single" qid="10004010.1" from="10004010.1" to="10004010.2"/>Behold, Saul is dead,<q class="end-single" qid="10004010.2" from="10004010.1" to="10004010.2"/> and thought he was bringing good news, <crossref let="r" cid="c10004010.2"/>I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004011"/>
+    <verse num="11">How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now <crossref let="s" cid="c10004011.1"/>require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?<q class="end-double" qid="10004011.1" from="10004009.1" to="10004011.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10004012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it <crossref let="t" cid="c10004012.1"/>in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005001"/>
+  <chapter num="5">
+    <heading>David Anointed King of Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Then all the tribes of Israel <crossref let="u" cid="c10005001.1"/>came to David at Hebron and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005001.1" from="10005001.1" to="10005002.3"/>Behold, <crossref let="v" cid="c10005001.2"/>we are your bone and flesh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005002"/>
+    <verse num="2">In times past, when Saul was king over us, <crossref let="w" cid="c10005002.1"/>it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to you, <crossref let="x" cid="c10005002.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="10005002.1" from="10005002.1" to="10005002.2"/>You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince<note nid="n10005002.1"/> over Israel.<q class="end-single" qid="10005002.2" from="10005002.1" to="10005002.2"/><q class="end-double" qid="10005002.3" from="10005001.1" to="10005002.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005003"/>
+    <verse num="3">So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, <crossref let="y" cid="c10005003.1"/>and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron <crossref let="z" cid="c10005003.2"/>before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and they anointed David king over Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005004"/>
+    <verse num="4">David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and <crossref let="a" cid="c10005004.1"/>he reigned forty years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="a" cid="c10005005.1"/>At Hebron he reigned over Judah <crossref let="b" cid="c10005005.2"/>seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.<note nid="n10005005.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="c" cid="c10005006.1"/>And the king and his men went to Jerusalem <crossref let="d" cid="c10005006.2"/>against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005006.1" from="10005006.1" to="10005006.2"/>You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off<q class="end-double" qid="10005006.2" from="10005006.1" to="10005006.2"/>&emdash;thinking, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005006.3" from="10005006.3" to="10005006.4"/>David cannot come in here.<q class="end-double" qid="10005006.4" from="10005006.3" to="10005006.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, <crossref let="e" cid="c10005007.1"/>that is, the city of David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And David said on that day, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005008.1" from="10005008.1" to="10005008.4"/>Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack <q class="begin-single" qid="10005008.2" from="10005008.2" to="10005008.3"/>the lame and the blind,<q class="end-single" qid="10005008.3" from="10005008.2" to="10005008.3"/> who are hated by David&apos;s soul.<q class="end-double" qid="10005008.4" from="10005008.1" to="10005008.4"/> Therefore it is said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005008.5" from="10005008.5" to="10005008.6"/>The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.<q class="end-double" qid="10005008.6" from="10005008.5" to="10005008.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And David lived in the stronghold and called it <crossref let="e" cid="c10005009.1"/>the city of David. And David built the city all around from the <crossref let="f" cid="c10005009.2"/>Millo inward.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And David became greater and greater, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of hosts, was with him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="g" cid="c10005011.1"/>And <crossref let="h" cid="c10005011.2"/>Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And David knew that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">And David took more <crossref let="i" cid="c10005013.1"/>concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="j" cid="c10005014.1"/>And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005017"/>
+    <heading>David Defeats the Philistines</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down <crossref let="k" cid="c10005017.1"/>to the stronghold.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Now the Philistines had come and spread out in <crossref let="l" cid="c10005018.1"/>the Valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And David <crossref let="m" cid="c10005019.1"/>inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005019.1" from="10005019.1" to="10005019.2"/>Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?<q class="end-double" qid="10005019.2" from="10005019.1" to="10005019.2"/> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005019.3" from="10005019.3" to="10005019.4"/>Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="10005019.4" from="10005019.3" to="10005019.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005020.1" from="10005020.1" to="10005020.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.<q class="end-double" qid="10005020.2" from="10005020.1" to="10005020.2"/> <crossref let="n" cid="c10005020.1"/>Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.<note nid="n10005020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">And the Philistines came up yet again <crossref let="o" cid="c10005022.1"/>and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="p" cid="c10005023.1"/>And when David inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10005023.1" from="10005023.1" to="10005024.1"/>You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And <crossref let="q" cid="c10005024.1"/>when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, <crossref let="r" cid="c10005024.2"/>for then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.<q class="end-double" qid="10005024.1" from="10005023.1" to="10005024.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10005025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And David did as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba <crossref let="s" cid="c10005025.1"/>to Gezer.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006001"/>
+  <chapter num="6">
+    <heading>The Ark Brought to Jerusalem</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="t" cid="c10006001.1"/>David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from <crossref let="u" cid="c10006002.1"/>Baale-judah <crossref let="v" cid="c10006002.2"/>to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts <crossref let="w" cid="c10006002.3"/>who sits enthroned on the cherubim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And they carried the ark of God <crossref let="x" cid="c10006003.1"/>on a new cart and brought it <crossref let="y" cid="c10006003.2"/>out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio,<note nid="n10006003.1"/> the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006004"/>
+    <verse num="4">with the ark of God,<note nid="n10006004.1"/> and Ahio went before the ark.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006005"/>
+    <heading>Uzzah and the Ark</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, with <crossref let="z" cid="c10006005.1"/>songs<note nid="n10006005.1"/> and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And when they came to the threshing floor of <crossref let="a" cid="c10006006.1"/>Nacon, Uzzah <crossref let="b" cid="c10006006.2"/>put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was kindled against Uzzah, and <crossref let="c" cid="c10006007.1"/>God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And David was angry because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah<note nid="n10006008.1"/> to this day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And David was afraid of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that day, and he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10006009.1" from="10006009.1" to="10006009.2"/>How can the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> come to me?<q class="end-double" qid="10006009.2" from="10006009.1" to="10006009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006010"/>
+    <verse num="10">So David was not willing to take the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> into the city of David. But David took it aside <crossref let="d" cid="c10006010.1"/>to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, <crossref let="e" cid="c10006011.1"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> blessed Obed-edom and all his household.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">And it was told King David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10006012.1" from="10006012.1" to="10006012.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.<q class="end-double" qid="10006012.2" from="10006012.1" to="10006012.2"/> <crossref let="f" cid="c10006012.1"/>So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom <crossref let="g" cid="c10006012.2"/>to the city of David with rejoicing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And when <crossref let="h" cid="c10006013.1"/>those who bore the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had gone six steps, <crossref let="i" cid="c10006013.2"/>he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And David <crossref let="j" cid="c10006014.1"/>danced before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with all his might. And David was <crossref let="k" cid="c10006014.2"/>wearing a linen ephod.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006015"/>
+    <verse num="15">So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with shouting and with the sound of the horn.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006016"/>
+    <heading>David and Michal</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">As the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and she despised him in her heart.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And they brought in the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and set it <crossref let="l" cid="c10006017.1"/>in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. <crossref let="m" cid="c10006017.2"/>And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, <crossref let="n" cid="c10006018.1"/>he blessed the people in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006019"/>
+    <verse num="19">and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat,<note nid="n10006019.1"/> and a cake of raisins to each one. <crossref let="o" cid="c10006019.1"/>Then all the people departed, each to his house.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10006020.1" from="10006020.1" to="10006020.2"/>How the king of Israel honored himself today, <crossref let="p" cid="c10006020.1"/>uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants&apos; female servants, as one of the <crossref let="q" cid="c10006020.2"/>vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!<q class="end-double" qid="10006020.2" from="10006020.1" to="10006020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And David said to Michal, <q class="begin-double" qid="10006021.1" from="10006021.1" to="10006022.1"/>It was before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="r" cid="c10006021.1"/>who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince<note nid="n10006021.1"/> over Israel, the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&emdash;and I will celebrate before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006022"/>
+    <verse num="22">I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your<note nid="n10006022.1"/> eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.<q class="end-double" qid="10006022.1" from="10006021.1" to="10006022.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10006023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007001"/>
+  <chapter num="7">
+    <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord&apos;s</span> Covenant with David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="s" cid="c10007001.1"/>Now when the king lived in his house and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="t" cid="c10007001.2"/>had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007002"/>
+    <verse num="2">the king said to <crossref let="u" cid="c10007002.1"/>Nathan the prophet, <q class="begin-double" qid="10007002.1" from="10007002.1" to="10007002.2"/>See now, I dwell <crossref let="v" cid="c10007002.2"/>in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells <crossref let="w" cid="c10007002.3"/>in a tent.<q class="end-double" qid="10007002.2" from="10007002.1" to="10007002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And Nathan said to the king, <crossref let="x" cid="c10007003.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10007003.1" from="10007003.1" to="10007003.2"/>Go, do all that is in your heart, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is with you.<q class="end-double" qid="10007003.2" from="10007003.1" to="10007003.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">But that same night the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Nathan,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><q class="begin-double" qid="10007005.1" from="10007005.1" to="10007016.2"/>Go and tell my servant David, <q class="begin-single" qid="10007005.2" from="10007005.2" to="10007007.3"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: <crossref let="y" cid="c10007005.1"/>Would you build me a house to dwell in?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007006"/>
+    <verse num="6">I have not lived in a house <crossref let="z" cid="c10007006.1"/>since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about <crossref let="a" cid="c10007006.2"/>in a tent for my dwelling.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007007"/>
+    <verse num="7">In all places where <crossref let="b" cid="c10007007.1"/>I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with <crossref let="c" cid="c10007007.2"/>any of the judges<note nid="n10007007.1"/> of Israel, whom I commanded <crossref let="d" cid="c10007007.3"/>to shepherd my people Israel, saying, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="10007007.1" from="10007007.1" to="10007007.2"/>Why have you not built me a house of cedar?<q class="end-inner-double" qid="10007007.2" from="10007007.1" to="10007007.2"/><q class="end-single" qid="10007007.3" from="10007005.2" to="10007007.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, <q class="begin-single" qid="10007008.1" from="10007008.1" to="10007016.1"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, <crossref let="e" cid="c10007008.1"/>I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince<note nid="n10007008.1"/> over my people Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="f" cid="c10007009.1"/>And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And I will appoint a place for my people Israel <crossref let="g" cid="c10007010.1"/>and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place <crossref let="h" cid="c10007010.2"/>and be disturbed no more. <crossref let="i" cid="c10007010.3"/>And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="j" cid="c10007011.1"/>from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And <crossref let="k" cid="c10007011.2"/>I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> declares to you that <crossref let="l" cid="c10007011.3"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will make you a house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="m" cid="c10007012.1"/>When your days are fulfilled and <crossref let="n" cid="c10007012.2"/>you lie down with your fathers, <crossref let="o" cid="c10007012.3"/>I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="p" cid="c10007013.1"/>He shall build a house for my name, and <crossref let="q" cid="c10007013.2"/>I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="r" cid="c10007014.1"/>I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, <crossref let="s" cid="c10007014.2"/>I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007015"/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="s" cid="c10007015.1"/>but my steadfast love will not depart from him, <crossref let="t" cid="c10007015.2"/>as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="u" cid="c10007016.1"/>And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.<note nid="n10007016.1"/> <crossref let="u" cid="c10007016.2"/>Your throne shall be established forever.<q class="end-single" qid="10007016.1" from="10007008.1" to="10007016.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="10007016.2" from="10007005.1" to="10007016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007017"/>
+    <verse num="17">In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007018"/>
+    <heading>David&apos;s Prayer of Gratitude</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Then King David went in and sat before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said, <crossref let="v" cid="c10007018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10007018.1" from="10007018.1" to="10007029.1"/>Who am I, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. <crossref let="w" cid="c10007019.1"/>You have spoken also of your servant&apos;s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And what more can David say to you? <crossref let="x" cid="c10007020.1"/>For you know your servant, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="y" cid="c10007022.1"/>Therefore you are great, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God. <crossref let="z" cid="c10007022.2"/>For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="a" cid="c10007023.1"/>And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name <crossref let="b" cid="c10007023.2"/>and doing for them<note nid="n10007023.1"/> great and awesome things by driving out before your people,<note nid="n10007023.2"/> whom <crossref let="c" cid="c10007023.3"/>you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007024"/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="d" cid="c10007024.1"/>And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, became their God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And your name will be magnified forever, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="10007026.1" from="10007026.1" to="10007026.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts is God over Israel,<q class="end-single" qid="10007026.2" from="10007026.1" to="10007026.2"/> and the house of your servant David will be established before you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007027"/>
+    <verse num="27">For you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="10007027.1" from="10007027.1" to="10007027.2"/>I will build you a house.<q class="end-single" qid="10007027.2" from="10007027.1" to="10007027.2"/> Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And now, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, you are God, and <crossref let="e" cid="c10007028.1"/>your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10007029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, have spoken, <crossref let="f" cid="c10007029.1"/>and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.<q class="end-double" qid="10007029.1" from="10007018.1" to="10007029.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008001"/>
+  <chapter num="8">
+    <heading>David&apos;s Victories</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="g" cid="c10008001.1"/>After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took <crossref let="h" cid="c10008001.2"/>Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="i" cid="c10008002.1"/>And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites <crossref let="j" cid="c10008002.2"/>became servants to David and <crossref let="k" cid="c10008002.3"/>brought tribute.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">David also defeated <crossref let="l" cid="c10008003.1"/>Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of <crossref let="m" cid="c10008003.2"/>Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="n" cid="c10008004.1"/>And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David <crossref let="o" cid="c10008004.2"/>hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="p" cid="c10008005.1"/>And when the <crossref let="q" cid="c10008005.2"/>Syrians of Damascus came to help <crossref let="l" cid="c10008005.3"/>Hadadezer king of <crossref let="m" cid="c10008005.4"/>Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians <crossref let="r" cid="c10008006.1"/>became servants to David and brought tribute. <crossref let="s" cid="c10008006.2"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave victory to David wherever he went.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And David took <crossref let="t" cid="c10008007.1"/>the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">When Toi king of <crossref let="u" cid="c10008009.1"/>Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="v" cid="c10008011.1"/>These also King David dedicated to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008012"/>
+    <verse num="12">from Edom, <crossref let="w" cid="c10008012.1"/>Moab, <crossref let="x" cid="c10008012.2"/>the Ammonites, <crossref let="y" cid="c10008012.3"/>the Philistines, <crossref let="z" cid="c10008012.4"/>Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of <crossref let="m" cid="c10008012.5"/>Zobah.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in <crossref let="a" cid="c10008013.1"/>the Valley of Salt.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, <crossref let="b" cid="c10008014.1"/>and all the Edomites became David&apos;s servants. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave victory to David wherever he went.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008015"/>
+    <heading>David&apos;s Officials</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="c" cid="c10008016.1"/>Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and <crossref let="d" cid="c10008016.2"/>Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008017"/>
+    <verse num="17">and <crossref let="e" cid="c10008017.1"/>Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and <crossref let="f" cid="c10008017.2"/>Seraiah was secretary,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10008018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and <crossref let="g" cid="c10008018.1"/>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over<note nid="n10008018.1"/> the <crossref let="h" cid="c10008018.2"/>Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David&apos;s sons were priests.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009001"/>
+  <chapter num="9">
+    <heading>David&apos;s Kindness to Mephibosheth</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009001.1" from="10009001.1" to="10009001.2"/>Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may <crossref let="i" cid="c10009001.1"/>show him kindness for Jonathan&apos;s sake?<q class="end-double" qid="10009001.2" from="10009001.1" to="10009001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was <crossref let="j" cid="c10009002.1"/>Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009002.1" from="10009002.1" to="10009002.2"/>Are you Ziba?<q class="end-double" qid="10009002.2" from="10009002.1" to="10009002.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009002.3" from="10009002.3" to="10009002.4"/>I am your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="10009002.4" from="10009002.3" to="10009002.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009003.1" from="10009003.1" to="10009003.2"/>Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show <crossref let="k" cid="c10009003.1"/>the kindness of God to him?<q class="end-double" qid="10009003.2" from="10009003.1" to="10009003.2"/> Ziba said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009003.3" from="10009003.3" to="10009003.4"/>There is still a son of <crossref let="l" cid="c10009003.2"/>Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.<q class="end-double" qid="10009003.4" from="10009003.3" to="10009003.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009004"/>
+    <verse num="4">The king said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009004.1" from="10009004.1" to="10009004.2"/>Where is he?<q class="end-double" qid="10009004.2" from="10009004.1" to="10009004.2"/> And Ziba said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009004.3" from="10009004.3" to="10009004.4"/>He is in the house of <crossref let="m" cid="c10009004.1"/>Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.<q class="end-double" qid="10009004.4" from="10009004.3" to="10009004.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And <crossref let="n" cid="c10009006.1"/>Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009006.1" from="10009006.1" to="10009006.2"/>Mephibosheth!<q class="end-double" qid="10009006.2" from="10009006.1" to="10009006.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009006.3" from="10009006.3" to="10009006.4"/>Behold, I am your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="10009006.4" from="10009006.3" to="10009006.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And David said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009007.1" from="10009007.1" to="10009007.2"/>Do not fear, <crossref let="i" cid="c10009007.1"/>for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and <crossref let="o" cid="c10009007.2"/>you shall eat at my table always.<q class="end-double" qid="10009007.2" from="10009007.1" to="10009007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And he paid homage and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009008.1" from="10009008.1" to="10009008.2"/>What is your servant, that you should show regard for <crossref let="p" cid="c10009008.1"/>a dead dog such as I?<q class="end-double" qid="10009008.2" from="10009008.1" to="10009008.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Then the king called Ziba, Saul&apos;s servant, and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009009.1" from="10009009.1" to="10009010.1"/>All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master&apos;s grandson.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master&apos;s grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master&apos;s grandson <crossref let="o" cid="c10009010.1"/>shall always eat at my table.<q class="end-double" qid="10009010.1" from="10009009.1" to="10009010.1"/> Now Ziba had <crossref let="q" cid="c10009010.2"/>fifteen sons and twenty servants.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then Ziba said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10009011.1" from="10009011.1" to="10009011.2"/>According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.<q class="end-double" qid="10009011.2" from="10009011.1" to="10009011.2"/> So Mephibosheth <crossref let="o" cid="c10009011.1"/>ate at David&apos;s<note nid="n10009011.1"/> table, like one of the king&apos;s sons.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Mephibosheth had a young son, <crossref let="r" cid="c10009012.1"/>whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba&apos;s house became Mephibosheth&apos;s servants.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10009013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for <crossref let="o" cid="c10009013.1"/>he ate always at the king&apos;s table. Now <crossref let="l" cid="c10009013.2"/>he was lame in both his feet.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010001"/>
+  <chapter num="10">
+    <heading>David Defeats Ammon and Syria</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="s" cid="c10010001.1"/>After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10010002.1" from="10010002.1" to="10010002.2"/>I will deal loyally<note nid="n10010002.1"/> with Hanun the son of <crossref let="t" cid="c10010002.1"/>Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.<q class="end-double" qid="10010002.2" from="10010002.1" to="10010002.2"/> So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David&apos;s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, <q class="begin-double" qid="10010003.1" from="10010003.1" to="10010003.2"/>Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?<q class="end-double" qid="10010003.2" from="10010003.1" to="10010003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So Hanun took David&apos;s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, <crossref let="u" cid="c10010004.1"/>at their hips, and sent them away.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010005"/>
+    <verse num="5">When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10010005.1" from="10010005.1" to="10010005.2"/>Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.<q class="end-double" qid="10010005.2" from="10010005.1" to="10010005.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of <crossref let="v" cid="c10010006.1"/>Beth-rehob, and <crossref let="w" cid="c10010006.2"/>the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of <crossref let="x" cid="c10010006.3"/>Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of <crossref let="y" cid="c10010006.4"/>Tob, 12,000 men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of <crossref let="z" cid="c10010007.1"/>the mighty men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and <crossref let="w" cid="c10010008.1"/>the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and <crossref let="y" cid="c10010008.2"/>the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010010"/>
+    <verse num="10">The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10010011.1" from="10010011.1" to="10010012.1"/>If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="a" cid="c10010012.1"/>Be of good courage, and <crossref let="b" cid="c10010012.2"/>let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and <crossref let="c" cid="c10010012.3"/>may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> do what seems good to him.<q class="end-double" qid="10010012.1" from="10010011.1" to="10010012.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond <crossref let="d" cid="c10010016.1"/>the Euphrates.<note nid="n10010016.1"/> They came to Helam, with <crossref let="e" cid="c10010016.2"/>Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded <crossref let="f" cid="c10010018.1"/>Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10010019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel <crossref let="g" cid="c10010019.1"/>and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011001"/>
+  <chapter num="11">
+    <heading>David and Bathsheba</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossrefs><crossref let="h" cid="c10011001.1"/><crossref let="i" cid="c10011001.2"/></crossrefs>In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged <crossref let="j" cid="c10011001.3"/>Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2">It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on <crossref let="k" cid="c10011002.1"/>the roof of the king&apos;s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011003.1" from="10011003.1" to="10011003.2"/>Is not this <crossref let="l" cid="c10011003.1"/>Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of <crossref let="m" cid="c10011003.2"/>Uriah the Hittite?<q class="end-double" qid="10011003.2" from="10011003.1" to="10011003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (<crossref let="n" cid="c10011004.1"/>Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011005.1" from="10011005.1" to="10011005.2"/>I am pregnant.<q class="end-double" qid="10011005.2" from="10011005.1" to="10011005.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">So David sent word to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011006.1" from="10011006.1" to="10011006.2"/>Send me Uriah the Hittite.<q class="end-double" qid="10011006.2" from="10011006.1" to="10011006.2"/> And Joab sent Uriah to David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011007"/>
+    <verse num="7">When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then David said to Uriah, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011008.1" from="10011008.1" to="10011008.2"/>Go down to your house and <crossref let="o" cid="c10011008.1"/>wash your feet.<q class="end-double" qid="10011008.2" from="10011008.1" to="10011008.2"/> And Uriah went out of the king&apos;s house, and there followed him a present from the king.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But Uriah slept at the door of the king&apos;s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011010"/>
+    <verse num="10">When they told David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011010.1" from="10011010.1" to="10011010.2"/>Uriah did not go down to his house,<q class="end-double" qid="10011010.2" from="10011010.1" to="10011010.2"/> David said to Uriah, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011010.3" from="10011010.3" to="10011010.4"/>Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?<q class="end-double" qid="10011010.4" from="10011010.3" to="10011010.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Uriah said to David, <crossref let="p" cid="c10011011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10011011.1" from="10011011.1" to="10011011.2"/>The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and <crossref let="q" cid="c10011011.2"/>the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and <crossref let="r" cid="c10011011.3"/>as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.<q class="end-double" qid="10011011.2" from="10011011.1" to="10011011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Then David said to Uriah, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011012.1" from="10011012.1" to="10011012.2"/>Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.<q class="end-double" qid="10011012.2" from="10011012.1" to="10011012.2"/> So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, <crossref let="s" cid="c10011013.1"/>so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with <crossref let="q" cid="c10011013.2"/>the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">In the morning David <crossref let="t" cid="c10011014.1"/>wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011015"/>
+    <verse num="15">In the letter he wrote, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011015.1" from="10011015.1" to="10011015.2"/>Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, <crossref let="u" cid="c10011015.1"/>that he may be struck down, and die.<q class="end-double" qid="10011015.2" from="10011015.1" to="10011015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And he instructed the messenger, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011019.1" from="10011019.1" to="10011021.4"/>When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011020"/>
+    <verse num="20">then, if the king&apos;s anger rises, and if he says to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="10011020.1" from="10011020.1" to="10011021.1"/>Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="v" cid="c10011021.1"/>Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?<q class="end-single" qid="10011021.1" from="10011020.1" to="10011021.1"/> then you shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="10011021.2" from="10011021.2" to="10011021.3"/>Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.<q class="end-single" qid="10011021.3" from="10011021.2" to="10011021.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="10011021.4" from="10011019.1" to="10011021.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011023"/>
+    <verse num="23">The messenger said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011023.1" from="10011023.1" to="10011024.1"/>The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king&apos;s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.<q class="end-double" qid="10011024.1" from="10011023.1" to="10011024.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011025"/>
+    <verse num="25">David said to the messenger, <q class="begin-double" qid="10011025.1" from="10011025.1" to="10011025.4"/>Thus shall you say to Joab, <q class="begin-single" qid="10011025.2" from="10011025.2" to="10011025.3"/>Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.<q class="end-single" qid="10011025.3" from="10011025.2" to="10011025.3"/> And encourage him.<q class="end-double" qid="10011025.4" from="10011025.1" to="10011025.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10011027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and <crossref let="w" cid="c10011027.1"/>she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012001"/>
+  <chapter num="12">
+    <heading>Nathan Rebukes David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent <crossref let="x" cid="c10012001.1"/>Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, <crossref let="y" cid="c10012001.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10012001.1" from="10012001.1" to="10012004.1"/>There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012002"/>
+    <verse num="2">The rich man had very many flocks and herds,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012003"/>
+    <verse num="3">but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms,<note nid="n10012003.1"/> and it was like a daughter to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man&apos;s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.<q class="end-double" qid="10012004.1" from="10012001.1" to="10012004.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then David&apos;s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, <crossref let="z" cid="c10012005.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10012005.1" from="10012005.1" to="10012006.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012006"/>
+    <verse num="6">and he shall restore the lamb <crossref let="a" cid="c10012006.1"/>fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.<q class="end-double" qid="10012006.1" from="10012005.1" to="10012006.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">Nathan said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012007.1" from="10012007.1" to="10012012.2"/>You are the man! Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, <crossref let="b" cid="c10012007.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="10012007.2" from="10012007.2" to="10012010.1"/>I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And I gave you your master&apos;s house and your master&apos;s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="c" cid="c10012009.1"/>Why have you despised the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="d" cid="c10012009.2"/>to do what is evil in his sight? <crossref let="e" cid="c10012009.3"/>You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and <crossref let="f" cid="c10012009.4"/>have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.<q class="end-single" qid="10012010.1" from="10012007.2" to="10012010.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-single" qid="10012011.1" from="10012011.1" to="10012012.1"/>Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012012"/>
+    <verse num="12">For you did it secretly, <crossref let="g" cid="c10012012.1"/>but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.<q class="end-single" qid="10012012.1" from="10012011.1" to="10012012.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="10012012.2" from="10012007.1" to="10012012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="h" cid="c10012013.1"/>David said to Nathan, <crossref let="i" cid="c10012013.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10012013.1" from="10012013.1" to="10012013.2"/>I have sinned against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="10012013.2" from="10012013.1" to="10012013.2"/> And Nathan said to David, <crossref let="j" cid="c10012013.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10012013.3" from="10012013.3" to="10012014.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> also has put away your sin; you shall not die.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly <crossref let="k" cid="c10012014.1"/>scorned the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<note nid="n10012014.1"/> the child who is born to you shall die.<q class="end-double" qid="10012014.1" from="10012013.3" to="10012014.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Then Nathan went to his house.
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <heading>David&apos;s Child Dies</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+                    And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> afflicted the child that Uriah&apos;s wife bore to David, and he became sick.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012016"/>
+    <verse num="16">David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David <crossref let="l" cid="c10012016.1"/>fasted and went in <crossref let="m" cid="c10012016.2"/>and lay all night on the ground.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012018"/>
+    <verse num="18">On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012018.1" from="10012018.1" to="10012018.2"/>Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.<q class="end-double" qid="10012018.2" from="10012018.1" to="10012018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012019"/>
+    <verse num="19">But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012019.1" from="10012019.1" to="10012019.2"/>Is the child dead?<q class="end-double" qid="10012019.2" from="10012019.1" to="10012019.2"/> They said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012019.3" from="10012019.3" to="10012019.4"/>He is dead.<q class="end-double" qid="10012019.4" from="10012019.3" to="10012019.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then David arose from the earth <crossref let="n" cid="c10012020.1"/>and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="o" cid="c10012020.2"/>and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Then his servants said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012021.1" from="10012021.1" to="10012021.2"/>What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.<q class="end-double" qid="10012021.2" from="10012021.1" to="10012021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012022"/>
+    <verse num="22">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012022.1" from="10012022.1" to="10012023.1"/>While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, <crossref let="p" cid="c10012022.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="10012022.2" from="10012022.2" to="10012022.3"/>Who knows whether the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will be gracious to me, that the child may live?<q class="end-single" qid="10012022.3" from="10012022.2" to="10012022.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, <crossref let="q" cid="c10012023.1"/>but he will not return to me.<q class="end-double" qid="10012023.1" from="10012022.1" to="10012023.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012024"/>
+    <heading>Solomon&apos;s Birth</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and <crossref let="r" cid="c10012024.1"/>she bore a son, and he called his name <crossref let="s" cid="c10012024.2"/>Solomon. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> loved him</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012025"/>
+    <verse num="25">and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah,<note nid="n10012025.1"/> because of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012026"/>
+    <heading>Rabbah Is Captured</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26"><crossref let="t" cid="c10012026.1"/>Now Joab <crossref let="u" cid="c10012026.2"/>fought against <crossref let="v" cid="c10012026.3"/>Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And Joab sent messengers to David and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10012027.1" from="10012027.1" to="10012028.1"/>I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.<q class="end-double" qid="10012028.1" from="10012027.1" to="10012028.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012029"/>
+    <verse num="29">So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent<note nid="n10012030.1"/> of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David&apos;s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10012031"/>
+    <verse num="31">And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at<note nid="n10012031.1"/> the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013001"/>
+  <chapter num="13">
+    <heading>Amnon and Tamar</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now <crossref let="w" cid="c10013001.1"/>Absalom, David&apos;s son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was <crossref let="x" cid="c10013001.2"/>Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David&apos;s son, loved her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of <crossref let="y" cid="c10013003.1"/>Shimeah, David&apos;s brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013004.1" from="10013004.1" to="10013004.2"/>O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?<q class="end-double" qid="10013004.2" from="10013004.1" to="10013004.2"/> Amnon said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013004.3" from="10013004.3" to="10013004.4"/>I love Tamar, my brother Absalom&apos;s sister.<q class="end-double" qid="10013004.4" from="10013004.3" to="10013004.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Jonadab said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013005.1" from="10013005.1" to="10013005.4"/>Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, <q class="begin-single" qid="10013005.2" from="10013005.2" to="10013005.3"/>Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.<q class="end-single" qid="10013005.3" from="10013005.2" to="10013005.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="10013005.4" from="10013005.1" to="10013005.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013006.1" from="10013006.1" to="10013006.2"/>Please let my sister Tamar come and <crossref let="z" cid="c10013006.1"/>make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.<q class="end-double" qid="10013006.2" from="10013006.1" to="10013006.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013007.1" from="10013007.1" to="10013007.2"/>Go to your brother Amnon&apos;s house and prepare food for him.<q class="end-double" qid="10013007.2" from="10013007.1" to="10013007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013008"/>
+    <verse num="8">So Tamar went to her brother Amnon&apos;s house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, <crossref let="a" cid="c10013009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10013009.1" from="10013009.1" to="10013009.2"/>Send out everyone from me.<q class="end-double" qid="10013009.2" from="10013009.1" to="10013009.2"/> So everyone went out from him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Then Amnon said to Tamar, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013010.1" from="10013010.1" to="10013010.2"/>Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="10013010.2" from="10013010.1" to="10013010.2"/> And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013011"/>
+    <verse num="11">But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013011.1" from="10013011.1" to="10013011.2"/>Come, lie with me, my sister.<q class="end-double" qid="10013011.2" from="10013011.1" to="10013011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013012"/>
+    <verse num="12">She answered him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013012.1" from="10013012.1" to="10013013.1"/>No, my brother, do not violate<note nid="n10013012.1"/> me, for <crossref let="b" cid="c10013012.1"/>such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this <crossref let="c" cid="c10013012.2"/>outrageous thing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013013"/>
+    <verse num="13">As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of <crossref let="d" cid="c10013013.1"/>the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.<q class="end-double" qid="10013013.1" from="10013012.1" to="10013013.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013014"/>
+    <verse num="14">But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013015.1" from="10013015.1" to="10013015.2"/>Get up! Go!<q class="end-double" qid="10013015.2" from="10013015.1" to="10013015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013016"/>
+    <verse num="16">But she said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013016.1" from="10013016.1" to="10013016.2"/>No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.<q class="end-double" qid="10013016.2" from="10013016.1" to="10013016.2"/><note nid="n10013016.1"/> But he would not listen to her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013017"/>
+    <verse num="17">He called the young man who served him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013017.1" from="10013017.1" to="10013017.2"/>Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.<q class="end-double" qid="10013017.2" from="10013017.1" to="10013017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Now she was wearing <crossref let="e" cid="c10013018.1"/>a long robe with sleeves,<note nid="n10013018.1"/> for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And Tamar <crossref let="f" cid="c10013019.1"/>put ashes on her head and <crossref let="g" cid="c10013019.2"/>tore the long robe that she wore. And <crossref let="h" cid="c10013019.3"/>she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">And her brother Absalom said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013020.1" from="10013020.1" to="10013020.2"/>Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart.<q class="end-double" qid="10013020.2" from="10013020.1" to="10013020.2"/> So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom&apos;s house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013021"/>
+    <verse num="21">When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.<note nid="n10013021.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013022"/>
+    <verse num="22">But Absalom spoke to Amnon <crossref let="i" cid="c10013022.1"/>neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013023"/>
+    <heading>Absalom Murders Amnon</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">After two full years Absalom had <crossref let="j" cid="c10013023.1"/>sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king&apos;s sons.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And Absalom came to the king and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013024.1" from="10013024.1" to="10013024.2"/>Behold, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="10013024.2" from="10013024.1" to="10013024.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013025"/>
+    <verse num="25">But the king said to Absalom, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013025.1" from="10013025.1" to="10013025.2"/>No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.<q class="end-double" qid="10013025.2" from="10013025.1" to="10013025.2"/> He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Then Absalom said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013026.1" from="10013026.1" to="10013026.2"/>If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.<q class="end-double" qid="10013026.2" from="10013026.1" to="10013026.2"/> And the king said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013026.3" from="10013026.3" to="10013026.4"/>Why should he go with you?<q class="end-double" qid="10013026.4" from="10013026.3" to="10013026.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king&apos;s sons go with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Then Absalom commanded his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013028.1" from="10013028.1" to="10013028.4"/>Mark when Amnon&apos;s <crossref let="k" cid="c10013028.1"/>heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="10013028.2" from="10013028.2" to="10013028.3"/>Strike Amnon,<q class="end-single" qid="10013028.3" from="10013028.2" to="10013028.3"/> then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.<q class="end-double" qid="10013028.4" from="10013028.1" to="10013028.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013029"/>
+    <verse num="29">So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king&apos;s sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013030"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30">While they were on the way, news came to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013030.1" from="10013030.1" to="10013030.2"/>Absalom has struck down all the king&apos;s sons, and not one of them is left.<q class="end-double" qid="10013030.2" from="10013030.1" to="10013030.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Then the king arose and <crossref let="l" cid="c10013031.1"/>tore his garments and <crossref let="m" cid="c10013031.2"/>lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013032"/>
+    <verse num="32">But <crossref let="n" cid="c10013032.1"/>Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David&apos;s brother, said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013032.1" from="10013032.1" to="10013033.1"/>Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king&apos;s sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013033"/>
+    <verse num="33">Now therefore let not my lord the king so <crossref let="o" cid="c10013033.1"/>take it to heart as to suppose that all the king&apos;s sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead.<q class="end-double" qid="10013033.1" from="10013032.1" to="10013033.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013034"/>
+    <heading>Absalom Flees to Geshur</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="p" cid="c10013034.1"/>But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him<note nid="n10013034.1"/> by the side of the mountain.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013035"/>
+    <verse num="35">And Jonadab said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10013035.1" from="10013035.1" to="10013035.2"/>Behold, the king&apos;s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.<q class="end-double" qid="10013035.2" from="10013035.1" to="10013035.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013036"/>
+    <verse num="36">And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king&apos;s sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013037"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="37"><crossref let="q" cid="c10013037.1"/>But Absalom fled and went to <crossref let="r" cid="c10013037.2"/>Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of <crossref let="s" cid="c10013037.3"/>Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013038"/>
+    <verse num="38"><crossref let="q" cid="c10013038.1"/>So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10013039"/>
+    <verse num="39">And the spirit of the king<note nid="n10013039.1"/> longed to go out<note nid="n10013039.2"/> to Absalom, because <crossref let="t" cid="c10013039.1"/>he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014001"/>
+  <chapter num="14">
+    <heading>Absalom Returns to Jerusalem</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew <crossref let="u" cid="c10014001.1"/>that the king&apos;s heart went out to Absalom.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Joab sent to <crossref let="v" cid="c10014002.1"/>Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014002.1" from="10014002.1" to="10014003.1"/>Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. <crossref let="w" cid="c10014002.2"/>Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Go to the king and speak thus to him.<q class="end-double" qid="10014003.1" from="10014002.1" to="10014003.1"/> So Joab <crossref let="x" cid="c10014003.1"/>put the words in her mouth.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, <crossref let="y" cid="c10014004.1"/>she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, <crossref let="z" cid="c10014004.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10014004.1" from="10014004.1" to="10014004.2"/>Save me, O king.<q class="end-double" qid="10014004.2" from="10014004.1" to="10014004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And the king said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014005.1" from="10014005.1" to="10014005.2"/>What is your trouble?<q class="end-double" qid="10014005.2" from="10014005.1" to="10014005.2"/> She answered, <crossref let="a" cid="c10014005.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10014005.3" from="10014005.3" to="10014007.3"/>Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, <q class="begin-single" qid="10014007.1" from="10014007.1" to="10014007.2"/>Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.<q class="end-single" qid="10014007.2" from="10014007.1" to="10014007.2"/> And so they would <crossref let="b" cid="c10014007.1"/>destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor <crossref let="c" cid="c10014007.2"/>remnant on the face of the earth.<q class="end-double" qid="10014007.3" from="10014005.3" to="10014007.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Then the king said to the woman, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014008.1" from="10014008.1" to="10014008.2"/>Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.<q class="end-double" qid="10014008.2" from="10014008.1" to="10014008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, <crossref let="d" cid="c10014009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10014009.1" from="10014009.1" to="10014009.2"/>On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father&apos;s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.<q class="end-double" qid="10014009.2" from="10014009.1" to="10014009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014010"/>
+    <verse num="10">The king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014010.1" from="10014010.1" to="10014010.2"/>If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again.<q class="end-double" qid="10014010.2" from="10014010.1" to="10014010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014011.1" from="10014011.1" to="10014011.2"/>Please let the king invoke the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, that <crossref let="e" cid="c10014011.1"/>the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.<q class="end-double" qid="10014011.2" from="10014011.1" to="10014011.2"/> He said, <crossref let="f" cid="c10014011.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10014011.3" from="10014011.3" to="10014011.4"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, <crossref let="g" cid="c10014011.3"/>not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.<q class="end-double" qid="10014011.4" from="10014011.3" to="10014011.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Then the woman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014012.1" from="10014012.1" to="10014012.2"/>Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.<q class="end-double" qid="10014012.2" from="10014012.1" to="10014012.2"/> He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014012.3" from="10014012.3" to="10014012.4"/>Speak.<q class="end-double" qid="10014012.4" from="10014012.3" to="10014012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And the woman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014013.1" from="10014013.1" to="10014017.3"/>Why then have you planned such a thing against <crossref let="h" cid="c10014013.1"/>the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring <crossref let="i" cid="c10014013.2"/>his banished one home again.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014014"/>
+    <verse num="14">We must all die; we are <crossref let="j" cid="c10014014.1"/>like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means <crossref let="k" cid="c10014014.2"/>so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, <q class="begin-single" qid="10014015.1" from="10014015.1" to="10014016.1"/>I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014016"/>
+    <verse num="16">For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from <crossref let="l" cid="c10014016.1"/>the heritage of God.<q class="end-single" qid="10014016.1" from="10014015.1" to="10014016.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And your servant thought, <q class="begin-single" qid="10014017.1" from="10014017.1" to="10014017.2"/>The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,<q class="end-single" qid="10014017.2" from="10014017.1" to="10014017.2"/> for my lord the king is <crossref let="m" cid="c10014017.1"/>like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God be with you!<q class="end-double" qid="10014017.3" from="10014013.1" to="10014017.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Then the king answered the woman, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014018.1" from="10014018.1" to="10014018.2"/>Do not hide from me anything I ask you.<q class="end-double" qid="10014018.2" from="10014018.1" to="10014018.2"/> And the woman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014018.3" from="10014018.3" to="10014018.4"/>Let my lord the king speak.<q class="end-double" qid="10014018.4" from="10014018.3" to="10014018.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014019"/>
+    <verse num="19">The king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014019.1" from="10014019.1" to="10014019.2"/>Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?<q class="end-double" qid="10014019.2" from="10014019.1" to="10014019.2"/> The woman answered and said, <crossref let="n" cid="c10014019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10014019.3" from="10014019.3" to="10014020.1"/>As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; <crossref let="o" cid="c10014019.2"/>it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014020"/>
+    <verse num="20">In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of <crossref let="m" cid="c10014020.1"/>the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.<q class="end-double" qid="10014020.1" from="10014019.3" to="10014020.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">Then the king said to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014021.1" from="10014021.1" to="10014021.2"/>Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom.<q class="end-double" qid="10014021.2" from="10014021.1" to="10014021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage <crossref let="p" cid="c10014022.1"/>and blessed the king. And Joab said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014022.1" from="10014022.1" to="10014022.2"/>Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.<q class="end-double" qid="10014022.2" from="10014022.1" to="10014022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014023"/>
+    <verse num="23">So Joab arose and went to <crossref let="q" cid="c10014023.1"/>Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014024.1" from="10014024.1" to="10014024.2"/>Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.<q class="end-double" qid="10014024.2" from="10014024.1" to="10014024.2"/> So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king&apos;s presence.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014025"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25">Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. <crossref let="r" cid="c10014025.1"/>From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he <crossref let="s" cid="c10014026.1"/>cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels<note nid="n10014026.1"/> by the king&apos;s weight.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014027"/>
+    <verse num="27">There were born <crossref let="t" cid="c10014027.1"/>to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king&apos;s presence.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Then he said to his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014030.1" from="10014030.1" to="10014030.2"/>See, Joab&apos;s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.<q class="end-double" qid="10014030.2" from="10014030.1" to="10014030.2"/> So Absalom&apos;s servants set the field on fire.<note nid="n10014030.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014031.1" from="10014031.1" to="10014031.2"/>Why have your servants set my field on fire?<q class="end-double" qid="10014031.2" from="10014031.1" to="10014031.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Absalom answered Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10014032.1" from="10014032.1" to="10014032.6"/>Behold, I sent word to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="10014032.2" from="10014032.2" to="10014032.5"/>Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="10014032.3" from="10014032.3" to="10014032.4"/>Why have I come from <crossref let="q" cid="c10014032.1"/>Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="10014032.4" from="10014032.3" to="10014032.4"/> Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, <crossref let="u" cid="c10014032.2"/>and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.<q class="end-single" qid="10014032.5" from="10014032.2" to="10014032.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="10014032.6" from="10014032.1" to="10014032.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10014033"/>
+    <verse num="33">Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015001"/>
+  <chapter num="15">
+    <heading>Absalom&apos;s Conspiracy</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">After this Absalom <crossref let="v" cid="c10015001.1"/>got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside <crossref let="w" cid="c10015002.1"/>the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015002.1" from="10015002.1" to="10015002.2"/>From what city are you?<q class="end-double" qid="10015002.2" from="10015002.1" to="10015002.2"/> And when he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015002.3" from="10015002.3" to="10015002.4"/>Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,<q class="end-double" qid="10015002.4" from="10015002.3" to="10015002.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Absalom would say to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015003.1" from="10015003.1" to="10015003.2"/>See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.<q class="end-double" qid="10015003.2" from="10015003.1" to="10015003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then Absalom would say, <crossref let="x" cid="c10015004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10015004.1" from="10015004.1" to="10015004.2"/>Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.<q class="end-double" qid="10015004.2" from="10015004.1" to="10015004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">And at the end of four<note nid="n10015007.1"/> years Absalom said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015007.1" from="10015007.1" to="10015008.3"/>Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, in Hebron.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015008"/>
+    <verse num="8">For your servant <crossref let="z" cid="c10015008.1"/>vowed a vow <crossref let="a" cid="c10015008.2"/>while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="10015008.1" from="10015008.1" to="10015008.2"/>If the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to<note nid="n10015008.1"/> the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-single" qid="10015008.2" from="10015008.1" to="10015008.2"/><q class="end-double" qid="10015008.3" from="10015007.1" to="10015008.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015009"/>
+    <verse num="9">The king said to him, <crossref let="b" cid="c10015009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10015009.1" from="10015009.1" to="10015009.2"/>Go in peace.<q class="end-double" qid="10015009.2" from="10015009.1" to="10015009.2"/> So he arose and went to Hebron.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015010.1" from="10015010.1" to="10015010.4"/>As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, <q class="begin-single" qid="10015010.2" from="10015010.2" to="10015010.3"/>Absalom is king at Hebron!<q class="end-single" qid="10015010.3" from="10015010.2" to="10015010.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="10015010.4" from="10015010.1" to="10015010.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015011"/>
+    <verse num="11">With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem <crossref let="c" cid="c10015011.1"/>who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for<note nid="n10015012.1"/> <crossref let="d" cid="c10015012.1"/>Ahithophel the Gilonite, <crossref let="e" cid="c10015012.2"/>David&apos;s counselor, from his city <crossref let="f" cid="c10015012.3"/>Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom <crossref let="g" cid="c10015012.4"/>kept increasing.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015013"/>
+    <heading>David Flees Jerusalem</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">And a messenger came to David, saying, <crossref let="h" cid="c10015013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10015013.1" from="10015013.1" to="10015013.2"/>The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.<q class="end-double" qid="10015013.2" from="10015013.1" to="10015013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015014.1" from="10015014.1" to="10015014.2"/>Arise, and let us <crossref let="i" cid="c10015014.1"/>flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.<q class="end-double" qid="10015014.2" from="10015014.1" to="10015014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And the king&apos;s servants said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015015.1" from="10015015.1" to="10015015.2"/>Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.<q class="end-double" qid="10015015.2" from="10015015.1" to="10015015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015016"/>
+    <verse num="16">So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left <crossref let="j" cid="c10015016.1"/>ten concubines to keep the house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">And <crossref let="k" cid="c10015018.1"/>all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from <crossref let="l" cid="c10015018.2"/>Gath, passed on before the king.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Then the king said to <crossref let="m" cid="c10015019.1"/>Ittai the Gittite, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015019.1" from="10015019.1" to="10015020.1"/>Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015020"/>
+    <verse num="20">You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go <crossref let="n" cid="c10015020.1"/>I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> show<note nid="n10015020.1"/> steadfast love and faithfulness to you.<q class="end-double" qid="10015020.1" from="10015019.1" to="10015020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015021"/>
+    <verse num="21">But Ittai answered the king, <crossref let="o" cid="c10015021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10015021.1" from="10015021.1" to="10015021.2"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, and as my lord the king lives, <crossref let="p" cid="c10015021.2"/>wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.<q class="end-double" qid="10015021.2" from="10015021.1" to="10015021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And David said to Ittai, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015022.1" from="10015022.1" to="10015022.2"/>Go then, pass on.<q class="end-double" qid="10015022.2" from="10015022.1" to="10015022.2"/> So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed <crossref let="q" cid="c10015023.1"/>the brook <crossref let="r" cid="c10015023.2"/>Kidron, and all the people passed on toward <crossref let="s" cid="c10015023.3"/>the wilderness.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">And <crossref let="t" cid="c10015024.1"/>Abiathar came up, and behold, <crossref let="u" cid="c10015024.2"/>Zadok came also with all the Levites, <crossref let="v" cid="c10015024.3"/>bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Then the king said to Zadok, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015025.1" from="10015025.1" to="10015026.3"/>Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, he will <crossref let="w" cid="c10015025.1"/>bring me back and let me see both it and his <crossref let="x" cid="c10015025.2"/>dwelling place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015026"/>
+    <verse num="26">But if he says, <q class="begin-single" qid="10015026.1" from="10015026.1" to="10015026.2"/>I have no <crossref let="y" cid="c10015026.1"/>pleasure in you,<q class="end-single" qid="10015026.2" from="10015026.1" to="10015026.2"/> behold, here I am, <crossref let="z" cid="c10015026.2"/>let him do to me what seems good to him.<q class="end-double" qid="10015026.3" from="10015025.1" to="10015026.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015027"/>
+    <verse num="27">The king also said to Zadok the priest, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015027.1" from="10015027.1" to="10015028.1"/>Are you not a <crossref let="a" cid="c10015027.1"/>seer? Go back<note nid="n10015027.1"/> to the city in peace, with <crossref let="b" cid="c10015027.2"/>your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015028"/>
+    <verse num="28">See, I will wait at <crossref let="c" cid="c10015028.1"/>the fords of <crossref let="s" cid="c10015028.2"/>the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.<q class="end-double" qid="10015028.1" from="10015027.1" to="10015028.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015029"/>
+    <verse num="29">So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015030"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30">But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, <crossref let="d" cid="c10015030.1"/>barefoot and <crossref let="e" cid="c10015030.2"/>with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, <crossref let="f" cid="c10015030.3"/>weeping as they went.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015031"/>
+    <verse num="31">And it was told David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015031.1" from="10015031.1" to="10015031.2"/>Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.<q class="end-double" qid="10015031.2" from="10015031.1" to="10015031.2"/> And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015031.3" from="10015031.3" to="10015031.4"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, please <crossref let="g" cid="c10015031.1"/>turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.<q class="end-double" qid="10015031.4" from="10015031.3" to="10015031.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai <crossref let="h" cid="c10015032.1"/>the Archite came to meet him <crossref let="i" cid="c10015032.2"/>with his coat torn and <crossref let="i" cid="c10015032.3"/>dirt on his head.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015033"/>
+    <verse num="33">David said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10015033.1" from="10015033.1" to="10015036.1"/>If you go on with me, you will be <crossref let="j" cid="c10015033.1"/>a burden to me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015034"/>
+    <verse num="34">But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, <crossref let="k" cid="c10015034.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="10015034.1" from="10015034.1" to="10015034.2"/>I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father&apos;s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,<q class="end-single" qid="10015034.2" from="10015034.1" to="10015034.2"/> then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king&apos;s house, <crossref let="l" cid="c10015035.1"/>tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Behold, <crossref let="m" cid="c10015036.1"/>their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok&apos;s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar&apos;s son, <crossref let="m" cid="c10015036.2"/>and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.<q class="end-double" qid="10015036.1" from="10015033.1" to="10015036.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10015037"/>
+    <verse num="37">So Hushai, <crossref let="n" cid="c10015037.1"/>David&apos;s friend, came into the city, <crossref let="o" cid="c10015037.2"/>just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016001"/>
+  <chapter num="16">
+    <heading>David and Ziba</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">When David had passed a little beyond <crossref let="p" cid="c10016001.1"/>the summit, <crossref let="q" cid="c10016001.2"/>Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, <crossref let="r" cid="c10016001.3"/>a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And the king said to Ziba, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016002.1" from="10016002.1" to="10016002.2"/>Why have you brought these?<q class="end-double" qid="10016002.2" from="10016002.1" to="10016002.2"/> Ziba answered, <crossref let="s" cid="c10016002.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10016002.3" from="10016002.3" to="10016002.4"/>The donkeys are for the king&apos;s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who <crossref let="t" cid="c10016002.2"/>faint in the wilderness to drink.<q class="end-double" qid="10016002.4" from="10016002.3" to="10016002.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016003.1" from="10016003.1" to="10016003.2"/>And where is your master&apos;s son?<q class="end-double" qid="10016003.2" from="10016003.1" to="10016003.2"/> <crossref let="u" cid="c10016003.1"/>Ziba said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016003.3" from="10016003.3" to="10016003.6"/>Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, <q class="begin-single" qid="10016003.4" from="10016003.4" to="10016003.5"/>Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.<q class="end-single" qid="10016003.5" from="10016003.4" to="10016003.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="10016003.6" from="10016003.3" to="10016003.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then the king said to Ziba, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016004.1" from="10016004.1" to="10016004.2"/>Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.<q class="end-double" qid="10016004.2" from="10016004.1" to="10016004.2"/> And Ziba said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016004.3" from="10016004.3" to="10016004.4"/>I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.<q class="end-double" qid="10016004.4" from="10016004.3" to="10016004.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016005"/>
+    <heading>Shimei Curses David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">When King David came to <crossref let="v" cid="c10016005.1"/>Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was <crossref let="w" cid="c10016005.2"/>Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came <crossref let="x" cid="c10016005.3"/>he cursed continually.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And Shimei said as he <crossref let="x" cid="c10016007.1"/>cursed, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016007.1" from="10016007.1" to="10016008.1"/>Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016008"/>
+    <verse num="8">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="y" cid="c10016008.1"/>has avenged on you all <crossref let="z" cid="c10016008.2"/>the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.<q class="end-double" qid="10016008.1" from="10016007.1" to="10016008.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016009.1" from="10016009.1" to="10016009.2"/>Why should this <crossref let="a" cid="c10016009.1"/>dead dog <crossref let="b" cid="c10016009.2"/>curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.<q class="end-double" qid="10016009.2" from="10016009.1" to="10016009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But the king said, <crossref let="c" cid="c10016010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10016010.1" from="10016010.1" to="10016010.6"/>What have I to do with you, <crossref let="d" cid="c10016010.2"/>you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has said to him, <q class="begin-single" qid="10016010.2" from="10016010.2" to="10016010.3"/>Curse David,<q class="end-single" qid="10016010.3" from="10016010.2" to="10016010.3"/> who then shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="10016010.4" from="10016010.4" to="10016010.5"/>Why have you done so?<q class="end-single" qid="10016010.5" from="10016010.4" to="10016010.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="10016010.6" from="10016010.1" to="10016010.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016011.1" from="10016011.1" to="10016012.1"/>Behold, <crossref let="e" cid="c10016011.1"/>my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has told him to.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016012"/>
+    <verse num="12">It may be that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will look on the wrong done to me,<note nid="n10016012.1"/> and that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will repay me with good for his cursing today.<q class="end-double" qid="10016012.1" from="10016011.1" to="10016012.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and <crossref let="f" cid="c10016013.1"/>cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And the king, and all the people who were with him, <crossref let="g" cid="c10016014.1"/>arrived weary at the Jordan.<note nid="n10016014.1"/> And there he refreshed himself.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016015"/>
+    <heading>Absalom Enters Jerusalem</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="h" cid="c10016015.1"/>Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And when Hushai the Archite, <crossref let="h" cid="c10016016.1"/>David&apos;s friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, <crossref let="i" cid="c10016016.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10016016.1" from="10016016.1" to="10016016.2"/>Long live the king! Long live the king!<q class="end-double" qid="10016016.2" from="10016016.1" to="10016016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And Absalom said to Hushai, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016017.1" from="10016017.1" to="10016017.2"/>Is this your loyalty to your friend? <crossref let="j" cid="c10016017.1"/>Why did you not go with your friend?<q class="end-double" qid="10016017.2" from="10016017.1" to="10016017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And Hushai said to Absalom, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016018.1" from="10016018.1" to="10016019.1"/>No, for whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And again, <crossref let="k" cid="c10016019.1"/>whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you.<q class="end-double" qid="10016019.1" from="10016018.1" to="10016019.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016020.1" from="10016020.1" to="10016020.2"/>Give your counsel. What shall we do?<q class="end-double" qid="10016020.2" from="10016020.1" to="10016020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Ahithophel said to Absalom, <q class="begin-double" qid="10016021.1" from="10016021.1" to="10016021.2"/>Go in to <crossref let="l" cid="c10016021.1"/>your father&apos;s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and <crossref let="m" cid="c10016021.2"/>the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.<q class="end-double" qid="10016021.2" from="10016021.1" to="10016021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016022"/>
+    <verse num="22">So they pitched a tent for Absalom <crossref let="n" cid="c10016022.1"/>on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father&apos;s concubines <crossref let="o" cid="c10016022.2"/>in the sight of all Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10016023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, <crossref let="p" cid="c10016023.1"/>both by David and by Absalom.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017001"/>
+  <chapter num="17">
+    <heading>Hushai Saves David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017001.1" from="10017001.1" to="10017003.1"/>Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017002"/>
+    <verse num="2">I will come upon him while he is <crossref let="q" cid="c10017002.1"/>weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. <crossref let="r" cid="c10017002.2"/>I will strike down only the king,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017003"/>
+    <verse num="3">and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man,<note nid="n10017003.1"/> and all the people will be at peace.<q class="end-double" qid="10017003.1" from="10017001.1" to="10017003.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">Then Absalom said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017005.1" from="10017005.1" to="10017005.2"/>Call <crossref let="s" cid="c10017005.1"/>Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say.<q class="end-double" qid="10017005.2" from="10017005.1" to="10017005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017006.1" from="10017006.1" to="10017006.2"/>Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he says? If not, you speak.<q class="end-double" qid="10017006.2" from="10017006.1" to="10017006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Then Hushai said to Absalom, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017007.1" from="10017007.1" to="10017007.2"/>This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good.<q class="end-double" qid="10017007.2" from="10017007.1" to="10017007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Hushai said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017008.1" from="10017008.1" to="10017013.1"/>You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,<note nid="n10017008.1"/> <crossref let="t" cid="c10017008.1"/>like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall<note nid="n10017009.1"/> at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, <q class="begin-single" qid="10017009.1" from="10017009.1" to="10017009.2"/>There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.<q class="end-single" qid="10017009.2" from="10017009.1" to="10017009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly <crossref let="u" cid="c10017010.1"/>melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017011"/>
+    <verse num="11">But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, <crossref let="v" cid="c10017011.1"/>from Dan to Beersheba, <crossref let="w" cid="c10017011.2"/>as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017012"/>
+    <verse num="12">So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017013"/>
+    <verse num="13">If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there.<q class="end-double" qid="10017013.1" from="10017008.1" to="10017013.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017014.1" from="10017014.1" to="10017014.2"/>The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.<q class="end-double" qid="10017014.2" from="10017014.1" to="10017014.2"/> <crossref let="x" cid="c10017014.1"/>For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had ordained<note nid="n10017014.1"/> to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> might bring harm upon Absalom.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="y" cid="c10017015.1"/>Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017015.1" from="10017015.1" to="10017016.3"/>Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Now therefore send quickly and tell David, <q class="begin-single" qid="10017016.1" from="10017016.1" to="10017016.2"/>Do not stay tonight at <crossref let="z" cid="c10017016.1"/>the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be <crossref let="a" cid="c10017016.2"/>swallowed up.<q class="end-single" qid="10017016.2" from="10017016.1" to="10017016.2"/><q class="end-double" qid="10017016.3" from="10017015.1" to="10017016.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Now <crossref let="b" cid="c10017017.1"/>Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at <crossref let="c" cid="c10017017.2"/>En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017018"/>
+    <verse num="18">But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at <crossref let="d" cid="c10017018.1"/>Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="e" cid="c10017019.1"/>And the woman took and spread a covering over the well&apos;s mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017020"/>
+    <verse num="20">When Absalom&apos;s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017020.1" from="10017020.1" to="10017020.2"/>Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?<q class="end-double" qid="10017020.2" from="10017020.1" to="10017020.2"/> And the woman said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017020.3" from="10017020.3" to="10017020.4"/>They have gone over the brook<note nid="n10017020.1"/> of water.<q class="end-double" qid="10017020.4" from="10017020.3" to="10017020.4"/> And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, <crossref let="f" cid="c10017021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10017021.1" from="10017021.1" to="10017021.2"/>Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.<q class="end-double" qid="10017021.2" from="10017021.1" to="10017021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to <crossref let="g" cid="c10017023.1"/>his own city. He <crossref let="h" cid="c10017023.2"/>set his house in order and <crossref let="i" cid="c10017023.3"/>hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Then David came to <crossref let="j" cid="c10017024.1"/>Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Now Absalom had set <crossref let="k" cid="c10017025.1"/>Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,<note nid="n10017025.1"/> who had married Abigal the daughter of <crossref let="l" cid="c10017025.2"/>Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab&apos;s mother.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27">When David came to Mahanaim, <crossref let="m" cid="c10017027.1"/>Shobi the son of Nahash from <crossref let="n" cid="c10017027.2"/>Rabbah of the Ammonites, and <crossref let="o" cid="c10017027.3"/>Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and <crossref let="p" cid="c10017027.4"/>Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017028"/>
+    <verse num="28">brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,<note nid="n10017028.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10017029"/>
+    <verse num="29">honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10017029.1" from="10017029.1" to="10017029.2"/>The people are hungry and <crossref let="q" cid="c10017029.1"/>weary and thirsty <crossref let="r" cid="c10017029.2"/>in the wilderness.<q class="end-double" qid="10017029.2" from="10017029.1" to="10017029.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018001"/>
+  <chapter num="18">
+    <heading>Absalom Killed</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab&apos;s brother, and one third under the command of <crossref let="s" cid="c10018002.1"/>Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018002.1" from="10018002.1" to="10018002.2"/>I myself will also go out with you.<q class="end-double" qid="10018002.2" from="10018002.1" to="10018002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="t" cid="c10018003.1"/>But the men said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018003.1" from="10018003.1" to="10018003.2"/>You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.<q class="end-double" qid="10018003.2" from="10018003.1" to="10018003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018004"/>
+    <verse num="4">The king said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018004.1" from="10018004.1" to="10018004.2"/>Whatever seems best to you I will do.<q class="end-double" qid="10018004.2" from="10018004.1" to="10018004.2"/> So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018005.1" from="10018005.1" to="10018005.2"/>Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.<q class="end-double" qid="10018005.2" from="10018005.1" to="10018005.2"/> <crossref let="u" cid="c10018005.1"/>And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the <crossref let="v" cid="c10018006.1"/>forest of Ephraim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018008"/>
+    <verse num="8">The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak,<note nid="n10018009.1"/> <crossref let="w" cid="c10018009.1"/>and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And a certain man saw it and told Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018010.1" from="10018010.1" to="10018010.2"/>Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.<q class="end-double" qid="10018010.2" from="10018010.1" to="10018010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Joab said to the man who told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018011.1" from="10018011.1" to="10018011.2"/>What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.<q class="end-double" qid="10018011.2" from="10018011.1" to="10018011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018012"/>
+    <verse num="12">But the man said to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018012.1" from="10018012.1" to="10018013.1"/>Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king&apos;s son, for <crossref let="x" cid="c10018012.1"/>in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, <q class="begin-single" qid="10018012.2" from="10018012.2" to="10018012.3"/>For my sake protect the young man Absalom.<q class="end-single" qid="10018012.3" from="10018012.2" to="10018012.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018013"/>
+    <verse num="13">On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life<note nid="n10018013.1"/> (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.<q class="end-double" qid="10018013.1" from="10018012.1" to="10018013.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Joab said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018014.1" from="10018014.1" to="10018014.2"/>I will not waste time like this with you.<q class="end-double" qid="10018014.2" from="10018014.1" to="10018014.2"/> And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And ten young men, Joab&apos;s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him <crossref let="y" cid="c10018017.1"/>a very great heap of stones. And all Israel <crossref let="z" cid="c10018017.2"/>fled every one to his own home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself <crossref let="a" cid="c10018018.1"/>the pillar that is in <crossref let="b" cid="c10018018.2"/>the King&apos;s Valley, for he said, <crossref let="c" cid="c10018018.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018018.1" from="10018018.1" to="10018018.2"/>I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.<q class="end-double" qid="10018018.2" from="10018018.1" to="10018018.2"/> He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom&apos;s monument<note nid="n10018018.1"/> to this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018019"/>
+    <heading>David Hears of Absalom&apos;s Death</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, <crossref let="d" cid="c10018019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018019.1" from="10018019.1" to="10018019.2"/>Let me run and carry news to the king that <crossref let="e" cid="c10018019.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.<q class="end-double" qid="10018019.2" from="10018019.1" to="10018019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And Joab said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018020.1" from="10018020.1" to="10018020.2"/>You are not to carry news today. You may carry news another day, but today you shall carry no news, because the king&apos;s son is dead.<q class="end-double" qid="10018020.2" from="10018020.1" to="10018020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Then Joab said to the Cushite, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018021.1" from="10018021.1" to="10018021.2"/>Go, tell the king what you have seen.<q class="end-double" qid="10018021.2" from="10018021.1" to="10018021.2"/> The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018022.1" from="10018022.1" to="10018022.2"/>Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite.<q class="end-double" qid="10018022.2" from="10018022.1" to="10018022.2"/> And Joab said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018022.3" from="10018022.3" to="10018022.4"/>Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?<q class="end-double" qid="10018022.4" from="10018022.3" to="10018022.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><q class="begin-double" qid="10018023.1" from="10018023.1" to="10018023.2"/>Come what may,<q class="end-double" qid="10018023.2" from="10018023.1" to="10018023.2"/> he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018023.3" from="10018023.3" to="10018023.4"/>I will run.<q class="end-double" qid="10018023.4" from="10018023.3" to="10018023.4"/> So he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018023.5" from="10018023.5" to="10018023.6"/>Run.<q class="end-double" qid="10018023.6" from="10018023.5" to="10018023.6"/> Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of <crossref let="f" cid="c10018023.1"/>the plain, and outran the Cushite.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Now David <crossref let="g" cid="c10018024.1"/>was sitting between the two gates, and <crossref let="h" cid="c10018024.2"/>the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018025"/>
+    <verse num="25">The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018025.1" from="10018025.1" to="10018025.2"/>If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.<q class="end-double" qid="10018025.2" from="10018025.1" to="10018025.2"/> And he drew nearer and nearer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018026"/>
+    <verse num="26">The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018026.1" from="10018026.1" to="10018026.2"/>See, another man running alone!<q class="end-double" qid="10018026.2" from="10018026.1" to="10018026.2"/> The king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018026.3" from="10018026.3" to="10018026.4"/>He also brings news.<q class="end-double" qid="10018026.4" from="10018026.3" to="10018026.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018027"/>
+    <verse num="27">The watchman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018027.1" from="10018027.1" to="10018027.2"/>I think the running of the first is <crossref let="i" cid="c10018027.1"/>like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.<q class="end-double" qid="10018027.2" from="10018027.1" to="10018027.2"/> And the king said, <crossref let="j" cid="c10018027.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018027.3" from="10018027.3" to="10018027.4"/>He is a good man and comes with good news.<q class="end-double" qid="10018027.4" from="10018027.3" to="10018027.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018028.1" from="10018028.1" to="10018028.2"/>All is well.<q class="end-double" qid="10018028.2" from="10018028.1" to="10018028.2"/> And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, <crossref let="k" cid="c10018028.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018028.3" from="10018028.3" to="10018028.4"/>Blessed be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king.<q class="end-double" qid="10018028.4" from="10018028.3" to="10018028.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018029"/>
+    <verse num="29">And the king said, <crossref let="l" cid="c10018029.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018029.1" from="10018029.1" to="10018029.2"/>Is it well with the young man Absalom?<q class="end-double" qid="10018029.2" from="10018029.1" to="10018029.2"/> Ahimaaz answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018029.3" from="10018029.3" to="10018029.4"/>When Joab sent the king&apos;s servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.<q class="end-double" qid="10018029.4" from="10018029.3" to="10018029.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018030.1" from="10018030.1" to="10018030.2"/>Turn aside and stand here.<q class="end-double" qid="10018030.2" from="10018030.1" to="10018030.2"/> So he turned aside and stood still.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018031"/>
+    <heading>David&apos;s Grief</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10018031.1" from="10018031.1" to="10018031.2"/>Good news for my lord the king! For <crossref let="m" cid="c10018031.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you.<q class="end-double" qid="10018031.2" from="10018031.1" to="10018031.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018032"/>
+    <verse num="32">The king said to the Cushite, <crossref let="l" cid="c10018032.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018032.1" from="10018032.1" to="10018032.2"/>Is it well with the young man Absalom?<q class="end-double" qid="10018032.2" from="10018032.1" to="10018032.2"/> And the Cushite answered, <crossref let="n" cid="c10018032.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018032.3" from="10018032.3" to="10018032.4"/>May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.<q class="end-double" qid="10018032.4" from="10018032.3" to="10018032.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10018033"/>
+    <verse num="33"><note nid="n10018033.1"/> And the king was deeply moved and went up <crossref let="g" cid="c10018033.1"/>to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, <crossref let="o" cid="c10018033.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10018033.1" from="10018033.1" to="10018033.2"/>O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!<q class="end-double" qid="10018033.2" from="10018033.1" to="10018033.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019001"/>
+  <chapter num="19">
+    <heading>Joab Rebukes David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">It was told Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019001.1" from="10019001.1" to="10019001.2"/>Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.<q class="end-double" qid="10019001.2" from="10019001.1" to="10019001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019002.1" from="10019002.1" to="10019002.2"/>The king is grieving for his son.<q class="end-double" qid="10019002.2" from="10019002.1" to="10019002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019004"/>
+    <verse num="4">The king <crossref let="p" cid="c10019004.1"/>covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, <crossref let="q" cid="c10019004.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10019004.1" from="10019004.1" to="10019004.2"/>O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!<q class="end-double" qid="10019004.2" from="10019004.1" to="10019004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019005.1" from="10019005.1" to="10019007.1"/>You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019006"/>
+    <verse num="6">because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now therefore arise, go out and speak <crossref let="r" cid="c10019007.1"/>kindly to your servants, for I swear by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.<q class="end-double" qid="10019007.1" from="10019005.1" to="10019007.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then the king arose and took his <crossref let="s" cid="c10019008.1"/>seat in the gate. And the people were all told, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019008.1" from="10019008.1" to="10019008.2"/>Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.<q class="end-double" qid="10019008.2" from="10019008.1" to="10019008.2"/> And all the people came before the king.
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <heading>David Returns to Jerusalem</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+                      Now Israel had <crossref let="t" cid="c10019008.2"/>fled every man to his own home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, <crossref let="u" cid="c10019009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10019009.1" from="10019009.1" to="10019010.1"/>The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and <crossref let="v" cid="c10019009.2"/>saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now <crossref let="w" cid="c10019009.3"/>he has fled out of the land from Absalom.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?<q class="end-double" qid="10019010.1" from="10019009.1" to="10019010.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">And King David sent this message to <crossref let="x" cid="c10019011.1"/>Zadok and Abiathar the priests: <q class="begin-double" qid="10019011.1" from="10019011.1" to="10019013.3"/>Say to the elders of Judah, <q class="begin-single" qid="10019011.2" from="10019011.2" to="10019012.1"/>Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?<note nid="n10019011.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019012"/>
+    <verse num="12">You are my brothers; <crossref let="y" cid="c10019012.1"/>you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?<q class="end-single" qid="10019012.1" from="10019011.2" to="10019012.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And say to Amasa, <crossref let="z" cid="c10019013.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="10019013.1" from="10019013.1" to="10019013.2"/>Are you not my bone and my flesh? <crossref let="a" cid="c10019013.2"/>God do so to me and more also, if you are not <crossref let="b" cid="c10019013.3"/>commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.<q class="end-single" qid="10019013.2" from="10019013.1" to="10019013.2"/><q class="end-double" qid="10019013.3" from="10019011.1" to="10019013.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah <crossref let="c" cid="c10019014.1"/>as one man, so that they sent word to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019014.1" from="10019014.1" to="10019014.2"/>Return, both you and all your servants.<q class="end-double" qid="10019014.2" from="10019014.1" to="10019014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019015"/>
+    <verse num="15">So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019016"/>
+    <heading>David Pardons His Enemies</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">And <crossref let="d" cid="c10019016.1"/>Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And <crossref let="e" cid="c10019017.1"/>Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and they crossed the ford to bring over the king&apos;s household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019019"/>
+    <verse num="19">and said to the king, <crossref let="f" cid="c10019019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10019019.1" from="10019019.1" to="10019020.1"/>Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant <crossref let="g" cid="c10019019.2"/>did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019020"/>
+    <verse num="20">For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first <crossref let="h" cid="c10019020.1"/>of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.<q class="end-double" qid="10019020.1" from="10019019.1" to="10019020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019021.1" from="10019021.1" to="10019021.2"/>Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because <crossref let="i" cid="c10019021.1"/>he cursed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed?<q class="end-double" qid="10019021.2" from="10019021.1" to="10019021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019022"/>
+    <verse num="22">But David said, <crossref let="j" cid="c10019022.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10019022.1" from="10019022.1" to="10019022.2"/>What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? <crossref let="k" cid="c10019022.2"/>Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?<q class="end-double" qid="10019022.2" from="10019022.1" to="10019022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="l" cid="c10019023.1"/>And the king said to Shimei, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019023.1" from="10019023.1" to="10019023.2"/>You shall not die.<q class="end-double" qid="10019023.2" from="10019023.1" to="10019023.2"/> And the king gave him his oath.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">And <crossref let="m" cid="c10019024.1"/>Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, <crossref let="n" cid="c10019025.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10019025.1" from="10019025.1" to="10019025.2"/>Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?<q class="end-double" qid="10019025.2" from="10019025.1" to="10019025.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019026"/>
+    <verse num="26">He answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019026.1" from="10019026.1" to="10019028.1"/>My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, <q class="begin-single" qid="10019026.2" from="10019026.2" to="10019026.3"/>I will saddle a donkey for myself,<note nid="n10019026.1"/> that I may ride on it and go with the king.<q class="end-single" qid="10019026.3" from="10019026.2" to="10019026.3"/> For <crossref let="o" cid="c10019026.1"/>your servant is lame.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019027"/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="p" cid="c10019027.1"/>He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is <crossref let="q" cid="c10019027.2"/>like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019028"/>
+    <verse num="28">For all my father&apos;s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but <crossref let="r" cid="c10019028.1"/>you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?<q class="end-double" qid="10019028.1" from="10019026.1" to="10019028.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019029"/>
+    <verse num="29">And the king said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019029.1" from="10019029.1" to="10019029.2"/>Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.<q class="end-double" qid="10019029.2" from="10019029.1" to="10019029.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And Mephibosheth said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019030.1" from="10019030.1" to="10019030.2"/>Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.<q class="end-double" qid="10019030.2" from="10019030.1" to="10019030.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019031"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">Now <crossref let="s" cid="c10019031.1"/>Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. <crossref let="t" cid="c10019032.1"/>He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019033"/>
+    <verse num="33">And the king said to Barzillai, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019033.1" from="10019033.1" to="10019033.2"/>Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.<q class="end-double" qid="10019033.2" from="10019033.1" to="10019033.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019034"/>
+    <verse num="34">But Barzillai said to the king, <crossref let="u" cid="c10019034.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10019034.1" from="10019034.1" to="10019037.1"/>How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019035"/>
+    <verse num="35">I am this day <crossref let="v" cid="c10019035.1"/>eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be <crossref let="w" cid="c10019035.2"/>an added burden to my lord the king?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019037"/>
+    <verse num="37">Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant <crossref let="x" cid="c10019037.1"/>Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.<q class="end-double" qid="10019037.1" from="10019034.1" to="10019037.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019038"/>
+    <verse num="38">And the king answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019038.1" from="10019038.1" to="10019038.2"/>Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.<q class="end-double" qid="10019038.2" from="10019038.1" to="10019038.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019039"/>
+    <verse num="39">Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And <crossref let="y" cid="c10019039.1"/>the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019040"/>
+    <verse num="40">The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019041"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="41">Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019041.1" from="10019041.1" to="10019041.2"/>Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and <crossref let="z" cid="c10019041.1"/>brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David&apos;s men with him?<q class="end-double" qid="10019041.2" from="10019041.1" to="10019041.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019042"/>
+    <verse num="42">All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019042.1" from="10019042.1" to="10019042.2"/>Because the king is <crossref let="a" cid="c10019042.1"/>our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king&apos;s expense? Or has he given us any gift?<q class="end-double" qid="10019042.2" from="10019042.1" to="10019042.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10019043"/>
+    <verse num="43">And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, <q class="begin-double" qid="10019043.1" from="10019043.1" to="10019043.2"/>We have <crossref let="b" cid="c10019043.1"/>ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?<q class="end-double" qid="10019043.2" from="10019043.1" to="10019043.2"/> <crossref let="c" cid="c10019043.2"/>But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020001"/>
+  <chapter num="20">
+    <heading>The Rebellion of Sheba</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now there happened to be there <crossref let="d" cid="c10020001.1"/>a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="e" cid="c10020001.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10020001.1" from="10020001.1" to="10020001.2"/>We have no portion in David,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c10020001.3"/>every man to his tents, O Israel!<q class="end-double" qid="10020001.2" from="10020001.1" to="10020001.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="2">So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took <crossref let="g" cid="c10020003.1"/>the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Then the king said to <crossref let="h" cid="c10020004.1"/>Amasa, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020004.1" from="10020004.1" to="10020004.2"/>Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.<q class="end-double" qid="10020004.2" from="10020004.1" to="10020004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And David said to Abishai, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020006.1" from="10020006.1" to="10020006.2"/>Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take <crossref let="i" cid="c10020006.1"/>your lord&apos;s servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.<q class="end-double" qid="10020006.2" from="10020006.1" to="10020006.2"/><note nid="n10020006.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And there went out after him Joab&apos;s men and the <crossref let="j" cid="c10020007.1"/>Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020008"/>
+    <verse num="8">When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier&apos;s garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Joab said to Amasa, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020009.1" from="10020009.1" to="10020009.2"/>Is it well with you, my brother?<q class="end-double" qid="10020009.2" from="10020009.1" to="10020009.2"/> And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand <crossref let="k" cid="c10020009.1"/>to kiss him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab&apos;s hand. <crossref let="l" cid="c10020010.1"/>So Joab struck him with it <crossref let="m" cid="c10020010.2"/>in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And one of Joab&apos;s young men took his stand by Amasa and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020011.1" from="10020011.1" to="10020011.2"/>Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.<q class="end-double" qid="10020011.2" from="10020011.1" to="10020011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020013"/>
+    <verse num="13">When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to <crossref let="n" cid="c10020014.1"/>Abel of <crossref let="n" cid="c10020014.2"/>Beth-maacah,<note nid="n10020014.1"/> and all <crossref let="o" cid="c10020014.3"/>the Bichrites<note nid="n10020014.2"/> assembled and followed him in.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in <crossref let="n" cid="c10020015.1"/>Abel of Beth-maacah. <crossref let="p" cid="c10020015.2"/>They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Then a wise woman called from the city, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020016.1" from="10020016.1" to="10020016.4"/>Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, <q class="begin-single" qid="10020016.2" from="10020016.2" to="10020016.3"/>Come here, that I may speak to you.<q class="end-single" qid="10020016.3" from="10020016.2" to="10020016.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="10020016.4" from="10020016.1" to="10020016.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And he came near her, and the woman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020017.1" from="10020017.1" to="10020017.2"/>Are you Joab?<q class="end-double" qid="10020017.2" from="10020017.1" to="10020017.2"/> He answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020017.3" from="10020017.3" to="10020017.4"/>I am.<q class="end-double" qid="10020017.4" from="10020017.3" to="10020017.4"/> Then she said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020017.5" from="10020017.5" to="10020017.6"/>Listen to the words of your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="10020017.6" from="10020017.5" to="10020017.6"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020017.7" from="10020017.7" to="10020017.8"/>I am listening.<q class="end-double" qid="10020017.8" from="10020017.7" to="10020017.8"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Then she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020018.1" from="10020018.1" to="10020019.1"/>They used to say in former times, <q class="begin-single" qid="10020018.2" from="10020018.2" to="10020018.3"/>Let them but ask counsel at <crossref let="n" cid="c10020018.1"/>Abel,<q class="end-single" qid="10020018.3" from="10020018.2" to="10020018.3"/> and so they settled a matter.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020019"/>
+    <verse num="19">I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you <crossref let="q" cid="c10020019.1"/>swallow up <crossref let="r" cid="c10020019.2"/>the heritage of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?<q class="end-double" qid="10020019.1" from="10020018.1" to="10020019.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Joab answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020020.1" from="10020020.1" to="10020021.1"/>Far be it from me, far be it, that I should <crossref let="q" cid="c10020020.1"/>swallow up or destroy!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020021"/>
+    <verse num="21">That is not true. But a man of <crossref let="s" cid="c10020021.1"/>the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.<q class="end-double" qid="10020021.1" from="10020020.1" to="10020021.1"/> And the woman said to Joab, <q class="begin-double" qid="10020021.2" from="10020021.2" to="10020021.3"/>Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.<q class="end-double" qid="10020021.3" from="10020021.2" to="10020021.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then the woman went to all the people <crossref let="t" cid="c10020022.1"/>in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, <crossref let="u" cid="c10020022.2"/>every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="v" cid="c10020023.1"/>Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020024"/>
+    <verse num="24">and <crossref let="w" cid="c10020024.1"/>Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020025"/>
+    <verse num="25">and Sheva was secretary; and <crossref let="x" cid="c10020025.1"/>Zadok and Abiathar were priests;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10020026"/>
+    <verse num="26">and <crossref let="y" cid="c10020026.1"/>Ira the Jairite was also David&apos;s priest.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021001"/>
+  <chapter num="21">
+    <heading>David Avenges the Gibeonites</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David <crossref let="z" cid="c10021001.1"/>sought the face of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10021001.1" from="10021001.1" to="10021001.2"/>There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.<q class="end-double" qid="10021001.2" from="10021001.1" to="10021001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but <crossref let="a" cid="c10021002.1"/>of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And David said to the Gibeonites, <q class="begin-double" qid="10021003.1" from="10021003.1" to="10021003.2"/>What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless <crossref let="b" cid="c10021003.1"/>the heritage of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?<q class="end-double" qid="10021003.2" from="10021003.1" to="10021003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021004"/>
+    <verse num="4">The Gibeonites said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10021004.1" from="10021004.1" to="10021004.2"/>It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="10021004.2" from="10021004.1" to="10021004.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10021004.3" from="10021004.3" to="10021004.4"/>What do you say that I shall do for you?<q class="end-double" qid="10021004.4" from="10021004.3" to="10021004.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021005"/>
+    <verse num="5">They said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10021005.1" from="10021005.1" to="10021006.1"/>The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021006"/>
+    <verse num="6">let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> at <crossref let="c" cid="c10021006.1"/>Gibeah of Saul, <crossref let="d" cid="c10021006.2"/>the chosen of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="10021006.1" from="10021005.1" to="10021006.1"/> And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10021006.2" from="10021006.2" to="10021006.3"/>I will give them.<q class="end-double" qid="10021006.3" from="10021006.2" to="10021006.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul&apos;s son Jonathan, because of <crossref let="e" cid="c10021007.1"/>the oath of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021008"/>
+    <verse num="8">The king took the two sons of <crossref let="f" cid="c10021008.1"/>Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab<note nid="n10021008.1"/> the daughter of Saul, whom <crossref let="g" cid="c10021008.2"/>she bore to <crossref let="h" cid="c10021008.3"/>Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021009"/>
+    <verse num="9">and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, <crossref let="i" cid="c10021009.1"/>at the beginning of barley harvest.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="j" cid="c10021010.1"/>Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021011"/>
+    <verse num="11">When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021012"/>
+    <verse num="12">David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, <crossref let="k" cid="c10021012.1"/>who had stolen them from the public square of <crossref let="l" cid="c10021012.2"/>Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in <crossref let="m" cid="c10021014.1"/>Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that <crossref let="n" cid="c10021014.2"/>God responded to the plea for the land.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021015"/>
+    <heading>War with the Philistines</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants <crossref let="o" cid="c10021016.1"/>of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels<note nid="n10021016.1"/> of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021017"/>
+    <verse num="17">But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David&apos;s men swore to him, <crossref let="p" cid="c10021017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10021017.1" from="10021017.1" to="10021017.2"/>You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench <crossref let="q" cid="c10021017.2"/>the lamp of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="10021017.2" from="10021017.1" to="10021017.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="r" cid="c10021018.1"/>After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then <crossref let="s" cid="c10021018.2"/>Sibbecai <crossref let="t" cid="c10021018.3"/>the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants <crossref let="u" cid="c10021018.4"/>of the giants.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and <crossref let="v" cid="c10021019.1"/>Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, <crossref let="w" cid="c10021019.2"/>the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver&apos;s beam.<note nid="n10021019.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended <crossref let="x" cid="c10021020.1"/>from the giants.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And when <crossref let="y" cid="c10021021.1"/>he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David&apos;s brother, struck him down.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10021022"/>
+    <verse num="22">These four were descended <crossref let="x" cid="c10021022.1"/>from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022001"/>
+  <chapter num="22">
+    <heading>David&apos;s Song of Deliverance</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And David spoke <crossref let="z" cid="c10022001.1"/>to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> the words of this song on the day when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="a" cid="c10022002.1"/>He said,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="b" cid="c10022002.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10022002.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022003"/>
+    <verse num="3">
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="c" cid="c10022003.1"/>my<note nid="n10022003.1"/> God, my rock, <crossref let="d" cid="c10022003.2"/>in whom I take refuge,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="e" cid="c10022003.3"/>my shield, and <crossref let="f" cid="c10022003.4"/>the horn of my salvation,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="g" cid="c10022003.5"/>my stronghold and <crossref let="h" cid="c10022003.6"/>my refuge,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>my savior; you save me from violence.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022004"/>
+    <verse num="4">
+        <begin-line/>I call upon the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, who is <crossref let="i" cid="c10022004.1"/>worthy to be praised,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and I am saved from my enemies.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="5">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="j" cid="c10022005.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022005.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>For the waves of death encompassed me,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the torrents of destruction assailed me;<note nid="n10022005.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022006"/>
+    <verse num="6">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c10022006.1"/>the cords of Sheol entangled me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the snares of death confronted me.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="7">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="l" cid="c10022007.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022007.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>In my distress I called upon the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>to my God I called.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>From his temple he heard my voice,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and my cry <crossref let="m" cid="c10022007.2"/>came to his ears.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="8">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022008.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>Then <crossref let="n" cid="c10022008.1"/>the earth reeled and rocked;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="o" cid="c10022008.2"/>the foundations of the heavens trembled<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and quaked, because he was angry.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022009"/>
+    <verse num="9">
+        <begin-line/>Smoke went up from his nostrils,<note nid="n10022009.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and devouring fire from his mouth;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="p" cid="c10022009.1"/>glowing coals flamed forth from him.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022010"/>
+    <verse num="10">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="q" cid="c10022010.1"/>He bowed the heavens and <crossref let="r" cid="c10022010.2"/>came down;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="s" cid="c10022010.3"/>thick darkness was under his feet.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022011"/>
+    <verse num="11">
+        <begin-line/>He rode on a cherub and flew;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he was seen on <crossref let="t" cid="c10022011.1"/>the wings of the wind.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022012"/>
+    <verse num="12">
+        <begin-line/>He made <crossref let="s" cid="c10022012.1"/>darkness around him <crossref let="u" cid="c10022012.2"/>his canopy,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>thick clouds, a gathering of water.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022013"/>
+    <verse num="13">
+        <begin-line/>Out of the brightness before him<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="v" cid="c10022013.1"/>coals of fire flamed forth.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022014"/>
+    <verse num="14">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="w" cid="c10022014.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> thundered from heaven,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and the Most High uttered his voice.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022015"/>
+    <verse num="15">
+        <begin-line/>And he sent out <crossref let="x" cid="c10022015.1"/>arrows and scattered them;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>lightning, and routed them.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022016"/>
+    <verse num="16">
+        <begin-line/>Then the channels of the sea were seen;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the foundations of the world were laid bare,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>at the rebuke of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>at the <crossref let="y" cid="c10022016.1"/>blast of the breath of his nostrils.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="17">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="z" cid="c10022017.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022017.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>He sent from on high, he took me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he drew me out of many waters.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022018"/>
+    <verse num="18">
+        <begin-line/>He rescued me from my strong enemy,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>from those who hated me,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>for they were too mighty for me.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022019"/>
+    <verse num="19">
+        <begin-line/>They confronted me in the day of my calamity,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was my support.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022020"/>
+    <verse num="20">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="a" cid="c10022020.1"/>He brought me out into a broad place;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he rescued me, because <crossref let="b" cid="c10022020.2"/>he delighted in me.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="21">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022021.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="c" cid="c10022021.1"/>dealt with me according to my righteousness;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>according to the <crossref let="d" cid="c10022021.2"/>cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022022"/>
+    <verse num="22">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="e" cid="c10022022.1"/>For I have kept the ways of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and have not wickedly departed from my God.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022023"/>
+    <verse num="23">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c10022023.1"/>For all his rules were before me,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and from his statutes I did not turn aside.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022024"/>
+    <verse num="24">
+        <begin-line/>I was <crossref let="g" cid="c10022024.1"/>blameless before him,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and I kept myself from guilt.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022025"/>
+    <verse num="25">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="d" cid="c10022025.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has rewarded me according to my righteousness,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>according to my cleanness in his sight.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="26">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="h" cid="c10022026.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022026.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>With the merciful you show yourself merciful;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>with the <crossref let="g" cid="c10022026.2"/>blameless man you show yourself blameless;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022027"/>
+    <verse num="27">
+        <begin-line/>with the purified you deal purely,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022028"/>
+    <verse num="28">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="i" cid="c10022028.1"/>You save a humble people,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="j" cid="c10022028.2"/>but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022029"/>
+    <verse num="29">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c10022029.1"/>For you are my lamp, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and my God lightens my darkness.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022030"/>
+    <verse num="30">
+        <begin-line/>For by you I can run against a troop,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and by my God I can leap over a wall.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022031"/>
+    <verse num="31">
+        <begin-line/>This God&emdash;<crossref let="l" cid="c10022031.1"/>his way is perfect;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the <crossref let="m" cid="c10022031.2"/>word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> proves true;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he is <crossref let="n" cid="c10022031.3"/>a shield for all those who take refuge in him.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="32">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022032.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>For who is God, but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="o" cid="c10022032.1"/>And who is a rock, except our God?<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022033"/>
+    <verse num="33">
+        <begin-line/>This God is my <crossref let="p" cid="c10022033.1"/>strong refuge<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and has made my<note nid="n10022033.1"/> way blameless.<note nid="n10022033.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022034"/>
+    <verse num="34">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="q" cid="c10022034.1"/>He made my feet like the feet of a deer<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and set me secure <crossref let="r" cid="c10022034.2"/>on the heights.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022035"/>
+    <verse num="35">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="s" cid="c10022035.1"/>He trains my hands for war,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022036"/>
+    <verse num="36">
+        <begin-line/>You have given me the shield of your salvation,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and your gentleness made me great.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022037"/>
+    <verse num="37">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="t" cid="c10022037.1"/>You gave a wide place for my steps under me,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and my feet<note nid="n10022037.1"/> did not slip;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022038"/>
+    <verse num="38">
+        <begin-line/>I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and did not turn back until they were consumed.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022039"/>
+    <verse num="39">
+        <begin-line/>I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>they fell <crossref let="u" cid="c10022039.1"/>under my feet.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022040"/>
+    <verse num="40">
+        <begin-line/>For you equipped me with strength for the battle;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>you made <crossref let="v" cid="c10022040.1"/>those who rise against me sink under me.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022041"/>
+    <verse num="41">
+        <begin-line/>You <crossref let="w" cid="c10022041.1"/>made my enemies turn their backs to me,<note nid="n10022041.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>those who hated me, and I destroyed them.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022042"/>
+    <verse num="42">
+        <begin-line/>They looked, but there was none to save;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>they cried to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, but <crossref let="x" cid="c10022042.1"/>he did not answer them.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022043"/>
+    <verse num="43">
+        <begin-line/>I beat them fine <crossref let="y" cid="c10022043.1"/>as the dust of the earth;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>I crushed them and stamped them down <crossref let="z" cid="c10022043.2"/>like the mire of the streets.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022044"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="44">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022044.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>You delivered me from strife with my people;<note nid="n10022044.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>you kept me as the head of <crossref let="a" cid="c10022044.1"/>the nations;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="b" cid="c10022044.2"/>people whom I had not known served me.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022045"/>
+    <verse num="45">
+        <begin-line/>Foreigners came cringing to me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022046"/>
+    <verse num="46">
+        <begin-line/>Foreigners lost heart<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and came trembling<note nid="n10022046.1"/> <crossref let="c" cid="c10022046.1"/>out of their fortresses.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022047"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="47">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022047.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, and blessed be my rock,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and exalted be <crossref let="d" cid="c10022047.1"/>my God, <crossref let="e" cid="c10022047.2"/>the rock of my salvation,<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022048"/>
+    <verse num="48">
+        <begin-line/>the God who gave me vengeance<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and <crossref let="f" cid="c10022048.1"/>brought down peoples under me,<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022049"/>
+    <verse num="49">
+        <begin-line/>who brought me out from my enemies;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>you exalted me above <crossref let="v" cid="c10022049.1"/>those who rose against me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>you delivered me from <crossref let="g" cid="c10022049.2"/>men of violence.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022050"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="50">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="h" cid="c10022050.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="10022050.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/>For this I will praise you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, among the nations,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and sing praises to your name.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10022051"/>
+    <verse num="51">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="i" cid="c10022051.1"/>Great salvation he brings<note nid="n10022051.1"/> to his king,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and shows steadfast love to <crossref let="j" cid="c10022051.2"/>his anointed,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>to David and his offspring <crossref let="k" cid="c10022051.3"/>forever.<q class="end-double" qid="10022051.1" from="10022002.1" to="10022051.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023001"/>
+  <chapter num="23">
+    <heading>The Last Words of David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now these are the last words of David:
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/>The oracle of David, the son of Jesse,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the oracle of <crossref let="l" cid="c10023001.1"/>the man who was raised on high,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="j" cid="c10023001.2"/>the anointed of the God of Jacob,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the sweet psalmist of Israel:<note nid="n10023001.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="2">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="m" cid="c10023002.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10023002.1" from="10023002.1" to="10023007.1"/>The Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> speaks by me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>his word is on my tongue.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023003"/>
+    <verse num="3">
+        <begin-line/>The God of Israel has spoken;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="n" cid="c10023003.1"/>the Rock of Israel has said to me:<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>When one rules justly over men,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>ruling <crossref let="o" cid="c10023003.2"/>in the fear of God,<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023004"/>
+    <verse num="4">
+        <begin-line/>he <crossref let="p" cid="c10023004.1"/>dawns on them like the morning light,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>like rain<note nid="n10023004.1"/> that makes grass to sprout from the earth.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="5">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="10023005.1" from="10023002.1" to="10023007.1"/>For does not my house stand so with God?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="q" cid="c10023005.1"/>For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>ordered in all things and secure.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>For will he not cause to prosper<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>all my help and my desire?<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023006"/>
+    <verse num="6">
+        <begin-line/>But worthless men<note nid="n10023006.1"/> are all like thorns that are thrown away,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>for they cannot be taken with the hand;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023007"/>
+    <verse num="7">
+        <begin-line/>but the man who touches them<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and they are utterly consumed with fire.<q class="end-double" qid="10023007.1" from="10023002.1" to="10023007.1"/><note nid="n10023007.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023008"/>
+    <heading>David&apos;s Mighty Men</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="r" cid="c10023008.1"/>These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: <crossref let="s" cid="c10023008.2"/>Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three.<note nid="n10023008.1"/> He wielded his spear<note nid="n10023008.2"/> against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of <crossref let="t" cid="c10023009.1"/>Dodo, son of <crossref let="u" cid="c10023009.2"/>Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023010"/>
+    <verse num="10">He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the <crossref let="v" cid="c10023011.1"/>Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi,<note nid="n10023011.1"/> where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023012"/>
+    <verse num="12">But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> worked a great victory.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the <crossref let="w" cid="c10023013.1"/>cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped <crossref let="x" cid="c10023013.2"/>in the Valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023014"/>
+    <verse num="14">David was then <crossref let="y" cid="c10023014.1"/>in the stronghold, and <crossref let="z" cid="c10023014.2"/>the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And David said longingly, <q class="begin-double" qid="10023015.1" from="10023015.1" to="10023015.2"/>Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!<q class="end-double" qid="10023015.2" from="10023015.1" to="10023015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023017"/>
+    <verse num="17">and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10023017.1" from="10023017.1" to="10023017.2"/>Far be it from me, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that I should do this. Shall I drink <crossref let="a" cid="c10023017.1"/>the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?<q class="end-double" qid="10023017.2" from="10023017.1" to="10023017.2"/> Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty.<note nid="n10023018.1"/> And he wielded his spear against three hundred men<note nid="n10023018.2"/> and killed them and won a name beside the three.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023019"/>
+    <verse num="19">He was the most renowned of the thirty<note nid="n10023019.1"/> and became their commander, but he did not attain to <crossref let="b" cid="c10023019.1"/>the three.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">And <crossref let="c" cid="c10023020.1"/>Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man<note nid="n10023020.1"/> of <crossref let="d" cid="c10023020.2"/>Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels<note nid="n10023020.2"/> of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian&apos;s hand and killed him with his own spear.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023022"/>
+    <verse num="22">These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023023"/>
+    <verse num="23">He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="e" cid="c10023024.1"/>Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="f" cid="c10023025.1"/>Shammah of Harod, Elika of Harod,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh <crossref let="g" cid="c10023026.1"/>of Tekoa,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023027"/>
+    <verse num="27">Abiezer <crossref let="h" cid="c10023027.1"/>of Anathoth, Mebunnai <crossref let="i" cid="c10023027.2"/>the Hushathite,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Zalmon <crossref let="j" cid="c10023028.1"/>the Ahohite, Maharai <crossref let="k" cid="c10023028.2"/>of Netophah,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Heleb the son of Baanah <crossref let="k" cid="c10023029.1"/>of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of <crossref let="l" cid="c10023029.2"/>Gibeah of the people of Benjamin,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Benaiah <crossref let="m" cid="c10023030.1"/>of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of <crossref let="n" cid="c10023030.2"/>Gaash,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of <crossref let="o" cid="c10023031.1"/>Bahurim,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023033"/>
+    <verse num="33"><crossref let="p" cid="c10023033.1"/>Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023034"/>
+    <verse num="34">Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai <crossref let="q" cid="c10023034.1"/>of Maacah, <crossref let="r" cid="c10023034.2"/>Eliam the son of <crossref let="s" cid="c10023034.3"/>Ahithophel the Gilonite,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Hezro<note nid="n10023035.1"/> <crossref let="t" cid="c10023035.1"/>of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Igal the son of Nathan <crossref let="u" cid="c10023036.1"/>of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023037"/>
+    <verse num="37">Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai <crossref let="v" cid="c10023037.1"/>of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023038"/>
+    <verse num="38"><crossref let="w" cid="c10023038.1"/>Ira the <crossref let="x" cid="c10023038.2"/>Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10023039"/>
+    <verse num="39"><crossref let="y" cid="c10023039.1"/>Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024001"/>
+  <chapter num="24">
+    <heading>David&apos;s Census</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossrefs><crossref let="z" cid="c10024001.1"/><crossref let="a" cid="c10024001.2"/></crossrefs>Again the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, <crossref let="b" cid="c10024001.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10024001.1" from="10024001.1" to="10024001.2"/>Go, number Israel and Judah.<q class="end-double" qid="10024001.2" from="10024001.1" to="10024001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army,<note nid="n10024002.1"/> who was with him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024002.1" from="10024002.1" to="10024002.2"/>Go through all the tribes of Israel, <crossref let="c" cid="c10024002.1"/>from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.<q class="end-double" qid="10024002.2" from="10024002.1" to="10024002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But Joab said to the king, <crossref let="d" cid="c10024003.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10024003.1" from="10024003.1" to="10024003.2"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?<q class="end-double" qid="10024003.2" from="10024003.1" to="10024003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024004"/>
+    <verse num="4">But the king&apos;s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024005"/>
+    <verse num="5">They crossed the Jordan and began from <crossref let="e" cid="c10024005.1"/>Aroer,<note nid="n10024005.1"/> and from the city that is in the middle of the <crossref let="f" cid="c10024005.2"/>valley, toward Gad and on to <crossref let="g" cid="c10024005.3"/>Jazer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites;<note nid="n10024006.1"/> and they came to Dan, and from Dan<note nid="n10024006.2"/> they went around to <crossref let="h" cid="c10024006.1"/>Sidon,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024007"/>
+    <verse num="7">and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the <crossref let="i" cid="c10024007.1"/>Hivites and <crossref let="i" cid="c10024007.2"/>Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024008"/>
+    <verse num="8">So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men <crossref let="j" cid="c10024009.1"/>who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024010"/>
+    <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s Judgment of David&apos;s Sin</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">But <crossref let="k" cid="c10024010.1"/>David&apos;s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="l" cid="c10024010.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="10024010.1" from="10024010.1" to="10024010.2"/>I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done <crossref let="m" cid="c10024010.3"/>very foolishly.<q class="end-double" qid="10024010.2" from="10024010.1" to="10024010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And when David arose in the morning, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to <crossref let="n" cid="c10024011.1"/>the prophet Gad, David&apos;s <crossref let="o" cid="c10024011.2"/>seer, saying,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><q class="begin-double" qid="10024012.1" from="10024012.1" to="10024012.4"/>Go and say to David, <q class="begin-single" qid="10024012.2" from="10024012.2" to="10024012.3"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Three things I offer<note nid="n10024012.1"/> you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.<q class="end-single" qid="10024012.3" from="10024012.2" to="10024012.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="10024012.4" from="10024012.1" to="10024012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024013.1" from="10024013.1" to="10024013.2"/>Shall <crossref let="p" cid="c10024013.1"/>three<note nid="n10024013.1"/> years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days&apos; pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.<q class="end-double" qid="10024013.2" from="10024013.1" to="10024013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then David said to Gad, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024014.1" from="10024014.1" to="10024014.2"/>I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="q" cid="c10024014.1"/>for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.<q class="end-double" qid="10024014.2" from="10024014.1" to="10024014.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="r" cid="c10024015.1"/>So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from <crossref let="s" cid="c10024015.2"/>Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And when <crossref let="t" cid="c10024016.1"/>the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem <crossref let="u" cid="c10024016.2"/>to destroy it, <crossref let="v" cid="c10024016.3"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> relented from the calamity and said to the angel <crossref let="u" cid="c10024016.4"/>who was working destruction among the people, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024016.1" from="10024016.1" to="10024016.2"/>It is enough; now stay your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="10024016.2" from="10024016.1" to="10024016.2"/> And <crossref let="t" cid="c10024016.5"/>the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was by the threshing floor of <crossref let="w" cid="c10024016.6"/>Araunah the Jebusite.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then David spoke to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024017.1" from="10024017.1" to="10024017.2"/>Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father&apos;s house.<q class="end-double" qid="10024017.2" from="10024017.1" to="10024017.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024018"/>
+    <heading>David Builds an Altar</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">And Gad came that day to David and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024018.1" from="10024018.1" to="10024018.2"/>Go up, raise an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on the threshing floor of <crossref let="x" cid="c10024018.1"/>Araunah the Jebusite.<q class="end-double" qid="10024018.2" from="10024018.1" to="10024018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024019"/>
+    <verse num="19">So David went up at Gad&apos;s word, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And Araunah said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024021.1" from="10024021.1" to="10024021.2"/>Why has my lord the king come to his servant?<q class="end-double" qid="10024021.2" from="10024021.1" to="10024021.2"/> David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024021.3" from="10024021.3" to="10024021.4"/>To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that the plague <crossref let="y" cid="c10024021.1"/>may be averted from the people.<q class="end-double" qid="10024021.4" from="10024021.3" to="10024021.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then Araunah said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024022.1" from="10024022.1" to="10024023.1"/>Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the <crossref let="z" cid="c10024022.1"/>threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024023"/>
+    <verse num="23">All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.<q class="end-double" qid="10024023.1" from="10024022.1" to="10024023.1"/> And Araunah said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024023.2" from="10024023.2" to="10024023.3"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <crossref let="a" cid="c10024023.1"/>accept you.<q class="end-double" qid="10024023.3" from="10024023.2" to="10024023.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024024"/>
+    <verse num="24">But the king said to Araunah, <q class="begin-double" qid="10024024.1" from="10024024.1" to="10024024.2"/>No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God that cost me nothing.<q class="end-double" qid="10024024.2" from="10024024.1" to="10024024.2"/> So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels<note nid="n10024024.1"/> of silver.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v10024025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And David built there an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. <crossref let="b" cid="c10024025.1"/>So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+</crossway-bible>