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And he bowed and said, What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I am?

And the woman conceived, and sent, and told David. And she said, I am with child.

And now he has died. Why this, that I should fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

And the king said to her, What shall be to you? And she said, Truly I am a widow woman, and my husband died.

And the king answered and said to the woman, Please do not hide from me the thing that I am asking you. And the woman said, Then let my lord the king speak.

And if He says this, I have not delighted in you, behold, I am here. He shall do to me as seems good in His eyes.

But if you return to the city, and shall say to Absalom, I also will be your servant, O king; I was servant of your father before now; and now I am also your servant. Thenyou can break down the counsel of Ahithophelfor me.

And David said, What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you are as my foe today? Shall any man be executed today in Israel? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?

I am a son of eighty years today. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? Can I any more listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? And why should your servantbe any more as a burden to my lord the king?

And he came near to her. And the woman said, Are you Joab? And he said, I am . And she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. And he said, I am hearing.

I am of the peaceful, faithful ones of Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

Go and you shall speak to David, So says Jehovah, I am setting up three things for you; you choose one of them and I will do it for you.

I am going in the way of all the earth. And you be strong, and be a man,

And now I am asking one petition of you. Do not turn away your face. And she said to him, Speak.

And now, O Jehovah my God, You have caused Your servant to reign instead of my father David. And I am a little man-child; I do not know to go out and to come in.

And, behold, I am commanding a house to be built to the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spoke to my father David, saying, Your son whom I will appoint in your place on your throne, he shall build the house for My name.

And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces for yourself. For so says Jehovah, God of Israel, Behold, I am tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and giving to you the ten tribes.

and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak tree. And he said to him, are you the man of God who has come from Judah? And he said, I am .

And he said, I am not able to go back with you, and to go in with you, nor may I eat bread or drink water with you in this place;

And he said to him, I also am a prophet like yourself, and an angel spoke to me by the Word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, and he shall eat bread and water (he lied to him).