the king
in his house.)

19:12. You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you
the last to bring back the king?

19:13. And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do
God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army
before me always in the place of Joab.

19:14. And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of
one man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy
servants.

19:15. And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all Juda
came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the
Jordan.

19:16. And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made
haste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,

19:17. With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the
house of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:
and going over the Jordan,

19:18. They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over
the king's household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei the
son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the
Jordan,

19:19. Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor
remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the
king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.

19:20. For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come
this day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet
my lord the king.

19:21. But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for
these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?

19:22. And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia?
why are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this
day in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel?

19:23. And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore unto
him.

19:24. And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and
he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his
garments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his
return in peace.

19:25. And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why
camest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?

19:26. And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me:
for I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on
and go with the king: for I thy