2 Sam 13-18

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 \v 16 The king left and all his family after him, but the king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the palace.
 \v 17 After the king went out and all the people after him, they stopped at the last house.
-\v 18 All his servants marched with him, and before him went all the Kerethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites—six hundred men who had followed him from Gath.
+\v 18 All his servants marched with him, and before him went all the Kerethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites—six hundred men who had followed him from Gath marched with the king.
 
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 \v 27 The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan son of Abiathar.
-\v 28 See, I will wait at the fords of the Arabah until word comes from you to inform me."
+\v 28 See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me."
 \v 29 So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back into Jerusalem, and they stayed there.
 
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 \v 1 When David had gone a short distance over the summit of the hill, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys; on them were two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred bunches of figs, and a skin of wine.
-\v 2 The king said to Ziba, "Why did you bring these things?" Ziba replied, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fig cakes are for your men to eat, and the wine is for anyone who is faint in the wilderness to drink."
+\v 2 The king said to Ziba, "Why did you bring these things?" Ziba replied, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fig cakes are for your young men to eat, and the wine is for anyone who is faint in the wilderness to drink."
 
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 \v 3 The king said, "Then where is your master's grandson?" Ziba replied to the king, "Look, he has stayed behind in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will restore my father's kingdom to me.'"
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 \v 5 When King David approached Bahurim, there came out from there a man from the clan of Saul, whose name was Shimei son of Gera. He came out cursing as he walked.
-\v 6 He threw stones at David and at all of the king's officials, in spite of the army and bodyguards who were on the king's right and left.
+\v 6 He threw stones at David and at all of the king's servants, in spite of the people and mighty men who were on the king's right and left.
 
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-\v 7 Shimei called out in cursing, "Go away, get out of here, you villain, you man of blood!
+\v 7 Shimei called out in cursing, "Go away, get out of here, you man of blood, you worthless man!
 \v 8 Yahweh has repaid all of you for the blood you shed within the family of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. Yahweh has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. You have come to ruin because you are a man of blood."
 
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 \v 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice about what we should do."
-\v 21 Ahithophel answered Absalom, "Go to your father's slave wives whom he has left to keep the palace, and all Israel will hear that you have become a stench to your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
+\v 21 Ahithophel answered Absalom, "Go to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace, and all Israel will hear that you have become a stench to your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
 
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-\v 22 So they spread for Absalom a tent on the top of the palace, and Absalom went to his father's slave wives in the sight of all Israel.
+\v 22 So they spread for Absalom a tent on the top of the palace, and Absalom went to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
 \v 23 Now the advice of Ahithophel that he gave in those days was as if a man heard from the mouth of God himself. That was how all of Ahithophel's advice was viewed by both David and Absalom.
 
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 \v 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel in such and such a way, but I have advised something else.
-\v 16 Now then, go quickly and report to David; say to him, 'Do not camp tonight at the fords of the Arabah, but by all means cross over, or the king will be swallowed up along with all the people who are with him.'"
+\v 16 Now then, go quickly and report to David; say to him, 'Do not camp tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, or the king will be swallowed up along with all the people who are with him.'"
 
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 \v 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at the spring of Rogel. A female servant used to go and inform them what they needed to know, for they could not risk being seen going into the city. When the message came, then they were to go and tell King David.
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 \v 19 The man's wife took the covering for the well and spread it over the well's opening, and tossed grain over it, so no one knew Jonathan and Ahimaaz were in the well.
-\v 20 Absalom's men came to the woman of the house and said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman told them, "They have crossed over the river." So after they had looked around and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
+\v 20 Absalom's servants came to the woman of the house and said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman told them, "They have crossed over the river." So after they had looked around and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
 
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 \v 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. As for Absalom, he crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
-\v 25 Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether the Ishmaelite \f + \ft Scholars disagree about whether the word describing Jether should be "Ishmaelite" as it is in the ancient Greek translation, or "Israelite" as it is in the ancient Hebrew text. Some scholars believe that "Israelite" is a scribal error in the Hebrew. "Ishmaelite" is the word used in a parallel passage (See: 1 Chronicles 2:17), in both the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. \f*, who went to Abigail, who was the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.
+\v 25 Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Jether the Ishmaelite \f + \ft Scholars disagree about whether the word describing Jether should be "Ishmaelite," as it is in the ancient Greek translation, or "Israelite," as it is in the ancient Hebrew text. Some scholars believe that "Israelite" is a scribal error in the Hebrew. "Ishmaelite" is the word used in a parallel passage, 1 Chronicles 2:17, in both the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. \f*, who went to Abigail, who was the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.
 \v 26 Then Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.
 
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 \v 6 So the army went out into the countryside against Israel; the battle spread into the forest of Ephraim.
-\v 7 The army of Israel was defeated there before the soldiers of David; there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
+\v 7 The army of Israel was defeated there before the servants of David; there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
 \v 8 The battle spread throughout the whole countryside, and more men were consumed by the forest than by the sword.
 
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-\v 9 Absalom happened to meet some of David's soldiers. Absalom was riding his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak tree, and his head was caught up in the tree branches. He was left dangling between the ground and the sky while the mule he was riding kept going.
+\v 9 Absalom happened to meet some of David's servants. Absalom was riding his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak tree, and his head was caught up in the tree branches. He was left dangling between the ground and the sky while the mule he was riding kept going.
 \v 10 Someone saw this and told Joab, "Look, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!"
 \v 11 Joab said to the man who told him about Absalom, "Look! You saw him! Why did you not strike him down to the ground? I would have given you ten silver shekels and a belt."
 
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 \v 16 Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the army returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab held back the army.
-\v 17 They took Absalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest; they buried his body under a very large pile of stones, while all Israel fled, every man to his own home.
+\v 17 They took Absalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest; they buried his body under a very large pile of stones, while all Israel fled, every man to his own tent.
 
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 \v 18 Now Absalom, while still alive, had built for himself a large stone pillar in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to carry along the memory of my name." He named the pillar after his own name, so it is called Absalom's Monument to this very day.