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Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be confirmed and shall be like an offering; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil; therefore the LORD your God will be with you.

And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done as you have said; go therefore, bring me the young man Absalom again.

And when he had his hair shorn (he used to cut it once a year because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), the hair of his head weighed two hundred shekels by the kings weight.

Therefore Absalom summoned Joab to send him to the king; but he would not come to him; and he sent a second time, but he would not come.

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem; and they remained there.

Behold, there are with you in the city Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Therefore it shall be that every word you hear from the kings house, you shall tell to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

And King David said to him, What is it to me and to you, O sons of Zoriah? Let him curse, it is the LORD who has told him to curse David. Therefore who can say to me, Why has this happened?

Therefore I counsel that when all Israel is gathered to you from Dan to Beer-sheba, then you yourself march in their midst.

Now therefore send quickly and tell David, saying, Do not spend the night in the plain of the wilderness, but pass over, lest you and all the people who are with you be destroyed.

And the king said to the people, If we surely should flee, the enemy will not care about us; now therefore ten thousand men are enough for us; for it is better for us to receive help from the cities.

Now therefore arise, go out and speak comfortingly to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you this night; and this will be worse for you than all the evils that have befallen you from your youth until now.

And Absalom, whom we anointed and made king over us, is dead in battle. And they said every man to his neighbor, Why therefore hesitate to go back with the king?

Come, therefore, let us bring him back to his house. And the words of the Israelites came to the king.

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

And my servant has lied about me, O my lord the king; but you, my lord the king, you are as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in your eyes.

For all of my fathers house were worthy of death before my lord the king; yet you counted your servant among those who eat at your table. Now therefore I cannot justify myself, neither speak before my lord the king.

Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the nations, and I will sing praises to thy name.

And he said, Far be it from me, on account of the LORD, that I should do this; because these men went at the risk of their lives. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three valiant men.

And he was honored above the thirty men; therefore he became their chief and performed heroic deeds equal to thirty men.