2 Samuel 15:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

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  • 1 Kgs 1:5 : 5 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.
  • 1 Sam 8:11 : 11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
  • Ps 20:7 : 7 Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.
  • Prov 11:2 : 2 When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
  • Prov 17:19 : 19 The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
  • Jer 22:14-16 : 14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 1:33 : 33 And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and put Solomon my son on my beast, yes, mine, and take him down to Gihon;
  • 1 Kgs 10:26-29 : 26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem. 27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number. 28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue. 29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
  • Deut 17:16 : 16 And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

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  • 2 Sam 15:2-7
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    2 And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

    3 And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.

    4 And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!

    5 And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.

    6 And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.

    7 Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:

  • 1 Kgs 1:5-6
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    5 Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

    6 Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 15:10-15
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    10 But Absalom at the same time sent watchers through all the tribes of Israel to say, At the sound of the horn you are to say, Absalom is king in Hebron.

    11 And with Absalom, at his request, went two hundred men from Jerusalem, who were completely unconscious of his designs.

    12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.

    13 And one came to David and said, The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.

    14 And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.

    15 And the king's servants said to the king, See, your servants are ready to do whatever the king says is to be done.

  • 2 Sam 17:24-26
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    24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

    25 And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

    26 And Israel and Absalom put up their tents in the land of Gilead.

  • 2 Sam 16:15
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    15 And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

  • 2 Sam 13:23-24
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    23 Now after two full years, Absalom had men cutting the wool of his sheep in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim: and he sent for all the king's sons to come to his feast.

    24 And Absalom came to the king and said, See now, your servant is cutting the wool of his sheep; will the king and his servants be pleased to come?

  • 2 Sam 14:1
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    1 Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15 And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

  • 2 Sam 13:29-30
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    29 So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.

    30 Now while they were on their way, news was given to David that Absalom had put to death all the sons of the king and that not one of them was still living.

  • 2 Sam 17:1
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    1 Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

  • 2 Sam 13:34
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    34 But Absalom went in flight. And the young man who kept the watch, lifting up his eyes, saw that a great band of people was coming down the slope by the way of the Horons; and the watchman came and gave word to the king, saying, I saw men coming down by the way of the Horons, from the hillside.

  • 2 Sam 14:28-33
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    28 For two full years Absalom was living in Jerusalem without ever seeing the face of the king.

    29 Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

    30 So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire.

    31 Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?

    32 And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.

    33 So Joab went to the king and said these words to him: and when the king had sent for him, Absalom came, and went down on his face on the earth before the king: and the king gave him a kiss.

  • 2 Sam 14:23-25
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    23 So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.

    24 And the king said, Let him go to his house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom went back to his house and did not see the face of the king.

    25 Now in all Israel there was no one so greatly to be praised for his beautiful form as Absalom: from his feet to the crown of his head he was completely beautiful.

  • 2 Sam 15:37
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    37 So Hushai, David's friend, went into the town, and Absalom came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 18:5
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    5 And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.

  • 2 Sam 17:4-5
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    4 And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.

    5 Then Absalom said, Now send for Hushai the Archite, and let us give ear to what he has to say.

  • 2 Sam 16:22
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    22 So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

  • 2 Sam 16:20
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    20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?

  • 2 Sam 19:1
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    1 And word was given to Joab that the king was weeping and sorrowing for Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
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    9 But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.

  • 2 Sam 18:9
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    9 And Absalom came across some of David's men. And Absalom was seated on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great tree, and his head became fixed in the tree and he was lifted up between earth and heaven, and the beast under him went on.

  • 2 Sam 13:27
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    27 But Absalom went on requesting him till he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. And Absalom made a great feast like a feast for a king.

  • 2 Sam 18:18-19
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    18 Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

    19 Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said, Let me go and give the king news of how the Lord has done right in his cause against those who took up arms against him.

  • 2 Sam 14:21
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    21 And the king said to Joab, See now, I will do this thing: go then and Come back with the young man Absalom.

  • 2 Chr 1:14
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    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 15:17
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    17 And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.