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The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.

Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.

But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.

Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now.

Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?

For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?

Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, Will sing praises to your name.

He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: [shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.

Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.

I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;