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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?

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you.

All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?

There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab.

There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?

The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.

For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:

He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his ordinances were before me; As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh; Yahweh will lighten my darkness.

For by you I run on a troop; By my God do I leap over a wall.

As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

For who is God, save Yahweh? Who is a rock, save our God?

For you have girded me with strength to the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.