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2 Samuel 15
³³ David said to him, "If you pass over with me, then you will be a burden to me.
³⁴ But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ’I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant,’ then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.
³⁵ Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So it shall be that whatever you hear from the king’s house, you shall report to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
³⁶ Behold their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send me everything that you hear."
³⁷ So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16
¹ Now when David had passed a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine.
² The king said to Ziba, "Why do you have these?" And Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink."
³ Then the king said, "And where is your master’s son?" And Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ’Today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me.’"
⁴ So the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours." And Ziba said, "I prostrate myself; let me find favor in your sight, O my lord, the king!"
⁵ When King David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out cursing continually as he came.
⁶ He threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David; and all the people and all the mighty men were at his right hand and at his left.