Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                  ABSALOM

2SA 3:3  his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of 
Carmel; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of Talmai king of 
Geshur;

2SA 13:22  Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated 
Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.

2SA 13:23  Two years later, when Absalom's sheepshearers were at Baal Hazor 
near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king's sons to come there.

2SA 13:24  Absalom went to the king and said, "Your servant has had 
shearers come. Will the king and his officials please join me?"

2SA 13:25  "No, my son," the king replied. "All of us should not go; we 
would only be a burden to you." Although Absalom urged him, he still 
refused to go, but gave him his blessing.

2SA 13:26  Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon come 
with us." The king asked him, "Why should he go with you?"

2SA 13:27  But Absalom urged him, so he sent with him Amnon and the rest of 
the king's sons.

2SA 13:28  Absalom ordered his men, "Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits 
from drinking wine and I say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' then kill him. 
Don't be afraid. Have not I given you this order? Be strong and brave."

2SA 13:29  So Absalom's men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all 
the king's sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.

2SA 13:37  Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of 
Geshur. But King David mourned for his son every day.

2SA 13:38  After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he stayed there three 
years.

2SA 14:1  Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart longed for 
Absalom.

2SA 14:23  Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.

2SA 14:24  But the king said, "He must go to his own house; he must not see 
my face." So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the 
king.

2SA 14:25  In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his 
handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his 
foot there was no blemish in him.

2SA 14:27  Three sons and a daughter were born to Absalom. The daughter's 
name was Tamar, and she became a beautiful woman.

2SA 14:28  Absalom lived two years in Jerusalem without seeing the king's 
face.

2SA 14:29  Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but 
Joab refused to come to him. So he sent a second time, but he refused to 
come.

2SA 14:30  Then he said to his servants, "Look, Joab's field is next to 
mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's 
servants set the field on fire.

2SA 14:31  Then Joab did go to Absalom's house and he said to him, "Why 
have your servants set my field on fire?"

2SA 14:32  Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I sent word to you and said, 'Come 
here so I can send you to the king to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It 
would be better for me if I were still there!" 'Now then, I want to see the 
king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death."

2SA 14:33  So Joab went to the king and told him this. Then the king 
summoned Absalom, and he came in and bowed down with his face to the ground 
before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.

2SA 15:1  In the course of time, Absalom provided himself with a chariot 
and horses and with fifty men to run ahead of him.

2SA 15:2  He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading 
to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before 
the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, "What town are you 
from?" He would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."

2SA 15:3  Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your claims are valid and 
proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you."

2SA 15:4  And Absalom would add, "If only I were appointed judge in the 
land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I 
would see that he gets justice."

2SA 15:5  Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, 
Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.

2SA 15:6  Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to 
the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the men of 
Israel.

2SA 15:7  At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, "Let me go to 
Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.

2SA 15:8  While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: 
'If the LORD takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in 
Hebron.'"

2SA 15:9  The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he went to Hebron.

2SA 15:10  Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of 
Israel to say, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, 
'Absalom is king in Hebron.'"

2SA 15:11  Two hundred men from Jerusalem had accompanied Absalom. They had 
been invited as guests and went quite innocently, knowing nothing about the 
matter.

2SA 15:12  While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for 
Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from Giloh, his 
hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom's following 
kept on increasing.

2SA 15:13  A messenger came and told David, "The hearts of the men of 
Israel are with Absalom."

2SA 15:14  Then David said to all his officials who were with him in 
Jerusalem, "Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We 
must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring 
ruin upon us and put the city to the sword."

2SA 16:8  The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the 
household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has handed the 
kingdom over to your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a 
man of blood!"

2SA 16:15  Meanwhile, Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, 
and Ahithophel was with him.

2SA 16:16  Then Hushai the Arkite, David's friend, went to Absalom and said 
to him, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

2SA 16:17  Absalom asked Hushai, "Is this the love you show your friend? 
Why didn't you go with your friend?"

2SA 16:18  Hushai said to Absalom, "No, the one chosen by the LORD, by 
these people, and by all the men of Israel--his I will be, and I will 
remain with him.

2SA 16:19  Furthermore, whom should I serve? Should I not serve the son? 
Just as I served your father, so I will serve you."

2SA 16:20  Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice. What should we 
do?"

2SA 16:21  Ahithophel answered, "Lie with your father's concubines whom he 
left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have 
made yourself a stench in your father's nostrils, and the hands of everyone 
with you will be strengthened."

2SA 16:22  So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he lay with 
his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2SA 16:23  Now in those days the advice Ahithophel gave was like that of 
one who inquires of God. That was how both David and Absalom regarded all 
of Ahithophel's advice.

2SA 17:1  Ahithophel said to Absalom, "I would choose twelve thousand men 
and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

2SA 17:4  This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.

2SA 17:5  But Absalom said, "Summon also Hushai the Arkite, so we can hear 
what he has to say."

2SA 17:6  When Hushai came to him, Absalom said, "Ahithophel has given this 
advice. Should we do what he says? If not, give us your opinion."

2SA 17:7  Hushai replied to Absalom, "The advice Ahithophel has given is 
not good this time.

2SA 17:8  You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as 
fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an 
experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.

2SA 17:9  Even now, he is hidden in a cave or some other place. If he 
should attack your troops first, whoever hears about it will say, 'There 
has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.'

2SA 17:11  "So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba--as 
numerous as the sand on the seashore--be gathered to you, with you yourself 
leading them into battle.

2SA 17:12  Then we will attack him wherever he may be found, and we will 
fall on him as dew settles on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men 
will be left alive.

2SA 17:13  If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to 
that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a piece of 
it can be found."

2SA 17:14  Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai 
the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel." For the LORD had determined 
to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on 
Absalom.

2SA 17:15  Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, "Ahithophel has 
advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have 
advised them to do so and so.

2SA 17:18  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them 
left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in 
his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

2SA 17:20  When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, 
"Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed 
over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to 
Jerusalem.

2SA 17:24  David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all 
the men of Israel.

2SA 17:25  Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. 
Amasa was the son of a man named Jether, an Israelite who had married 
Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

2SA 17:26  The Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

2SA 18:9  Now Absalom happened to meet David's men. He was riding his mule, 
and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's 
head got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule 
he was riding kept on going.

2SA 18:10  When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, "I just saw Absalom 
hanging in an oak tree."

2SA 18:11  Joab said to the man who had told him this, "What! You saw him? 
Why didn't you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had 
to give you ten shekels of silver and a warrior's belt."

2SA 18:12  But the man replied, "Even if a thousand shekels were weighed 
out into my hands, I would not lift my hand against the king's son. In our 
hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Protect the young 
man Absalom for my sake.'

2SA 18:13  And if I had put my life in jeopardy--and nothing is hidden from 
the king--you would have kept your distance from me."

2SA 18:14  Joab said, "I'm not going to wait like this for you." So he took 
three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom's heart while 
Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.

2SA 18:15  And ten of Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him 
and killed him.

2SA 18:16  Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing 
Israel, for Joab halted them.

2SA 18:17  They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and 
piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled 
to their homes.

2SA 18:18  During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in 
the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, "I have no son 
to carry on the memory of my name." He named the pillar after himself, and 
it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.

2SA 18:33  The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and 
wept. As he went, he said: "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If 
only I had died instead of you--O Absalom, my son, my son!"

2SA 19:1  Joab was told, "The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom."

2SA 19:2  And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into 
mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, "The king is 
grieving for his son."

2SA 19:3  The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are 
ashamed when they flee from battle.

2SA 19:4  The king covered his face and cried aloud, "O my son Absalom! O 
Absalom, my son, my son!"

2SA 19:5  Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, "Today you 
have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives 
of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines.

2SA 19:6  You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have 
made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. 
I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us 
were dead.

2SA 19:7  Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if 
you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will 
be worse for you than all the calamities that have come upon you from your 
youth till now."

2SA 19:8  So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men 
were told, "The king is sitting in the gateway," they all came before him. 
Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

1KI 15:2  and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was 
Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1CH 3:2  the third, Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of Talmai king of 
Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

2CH 11:20  Then he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, 
Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.

2SA 3:3  his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of 
Carmel; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of Talmai king of 
Geshur;

2SA 13:22  Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated 
Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.

2SA 13:23  Two years later, when Absalom's sheepshearers were at Baal Hazor 
near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king's sons to come there.

2SA 13:24  Absalom went to the king and said, "Your servant has had 
shearers come. Will the king and his officials please join me?"

2SA 13:25  "No, my son," the king replied. "All of us should not go; we 
would only be a burden to you." Although Absalom urged him, he still 
refused to go, but gave him his blessing.

2SA 13:26  Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon come 
with us." The king asked him, "Why should he go with you?"

2SA 13:27  But Absalom urged him, so he sent with him Amnon and the rest of 
the king's sons.

2SA 13:28  Absalom ordered his men, "Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits 
from drinking wine and I say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' then kill him. 
Don't be afraid. Have not I given you this order? Be strong and brave."

2SA 13:29  So Absalom's men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all 
the king's sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.

2SA 13:37  Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of 
Geshur. But King David mourned for his son every day.

2SA 13:38  After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he stayed there three 
years.

2SA 14:1  Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart longed for 
Absalom.

2SA 14:23  Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.

2SA 14:24  But the king said, "He must go to his own house; he must not see 
my face." So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the 
king.

2SA 14:25  In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his 
handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his 
foot there was no blemish in him.

2SA 14:27  Three sons and a daughter were born to Absalom. The daughter's 
name was Tamar, and she became a beautiful woman.

2SA 14:28  Absalom lived two years in Jerusalem without seeing the king's 
face.

2SA 14:29  Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but 
Joab refused to come to him. So he sent a second time, but he refused to 
come.

2SA 14:30  Then he said to his servants, "Look, Joab's field is next to 
mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's 
servants set the field on fire.

2SA 14:31  Then Joab did go to Absalom's house and he said to him, "Why 
have your servants set my field on fire?"

2SA 14:32  Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I sent word to you and said, 'Come 
here so I can send you to the king to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It 
would be better for me if I were still there!" 'Now then, I want to see the 
king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death."

2SA 14:33  So Joab went to the king and told him this. Then the king 
summoned Absalom, and he came in and bowed down with his face to the ground 
before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.

2SA 15:1  In the course of time, Absalom provided himself with a chariot 
and horses and with fifty men to run ahead of him.

2SA 15:2  He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading 
to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before 
the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, "What town are you 
from?" He would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."

2SA 15:3  Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your claims are valid and 
proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you."

2SA 15:4  And Absalom would add, "If only I were appointed judge in the 
land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I 
would see that he gets justice."

2SA 15:5  Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, 
Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.

2SA 15:6  Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to 
the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the men of 
Israel.

2SA 15:7  At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, "Let me go to 
Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.

2SA 15:8  While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: 
'If the LORD takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in 
Hebron.'"

2SA 15:9  The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he went to Hebron.

2SA 15:10  Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of 
Israel to say, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, 
'Absalom is king in Hebron.'"

2SA 15:11  Two hundred men from Jerusalem had accompanied Absalom. They had 
been invited as guests and went quite innocently, knowing nothing about the 
matter.

2SA 15:12  While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for 
Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from Giloh, his 
hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom's following 
kept on increasing.

2SA 15:13  A messenger came and told David, "The hearts of the men of 
Israel are with Absalom."

2SA 15:14  Then David said to all his officials who were with him in 
Jerusalem, "Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We 
must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring 
ruin upon us and put the city to the sword."

2SA 16:8  The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the 
household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has handed the 
kingdom over to your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a 
man of blood!"

2SA 16:15  Meanwhile, Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, 
and Ahithophel was with him.

2SA 16:16  Then Hushai the Arkite, David's friend, went to Absalom and said 
to him, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

2SA 16:17  Absalom asked Hushai, "Is this the love you show your friend? 
Why didn't you go with your friend?"

2SA 16:18  Hushai said to Absalom, "No, the one chosen by the LORD, by 
these people, and by all the men of Israel--his I will be, and I will 
remain with him.

2SA 16:19  Furthermore, whom should I serve? Should I not serve the son? 
Just as I served your father, so I will serve you."

2SA 16:20  Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice. What should we 
do?"

2SA 16:21  Ahithophel answered, "Lie with your father's concubines whom he 
left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have 
made yourself a stench in your father's nostrils, and the hands of everyone 
with you will be strengthened."

2SA 16:22  So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he lay with 
his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2SA 16:23  Now in those days the advice Ahithophel gave was like that of 
one who inquires of God. That was how both David and Absalom regarded all 
of Ahithophel's advice.

2SA 17:1  Ahithophel said to Absalom, "I would choose twelve thousand men 
and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

2SA 17:4  This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.

2SA 17:5  But Absalom said, "Summon also Hushai the Arkite, so we can hear 
what he has to say."

2SA 17:6  When Hushai came to him, Absalom said, "Ahithophel has given this 
advice. Should we do what he says? If not, give us your opinion."

2SA 17:7  Hushai replied to Absalom, "The advice Ahithophel has given is 
not good this time.

2SA 17:8  You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as 
fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an 
experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.

2SA 17:9  Even now, he is hidden in a cave or some other place. If he 
should attack your troops first, whoever hears about it will say, 'There 
has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.'

2SA 17:11  "So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba--as 
numerous as the sand on the seashore--be gathered to you, with you yourself 
leading them into battle.

2SA 17:12  Then we will attack him wherever he may be found, and we will 
fall on him as dew settles on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men 
will be left alive.

2SA 17:13  If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to 
that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a piece of 
it can be found."

2SA 17:14  Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai 
the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel." For the LORD had determined 
to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on 
Absalom.

2SA 17:15  Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, "Ahithophel has 
advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have 
advised them to do so and so.

2SA 17:18  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them 
left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in 
his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

2SA 17:20  When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, 
"Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed 
over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to 
Jerusalem.

2SA 17:24  David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all 
the men of Israel.

2SA 17:25  Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. 
Amasa was the son of a man named Jether, an Israelite who had married 
Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

2SA 17:26  The Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

2SA 18:9  Now Absalom happened to meet David's men. He was riding his mule, 
and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's 
head got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule 
he was riding kept on going.

2SA 18:10  When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, "I just saw Absalom 
hanging in an oak tree."

2SA 18:11  Joab said to the man who had told him this, "What! You saw him? 
Why didn't you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had 
to give you ten shekels of silver and a warrior's belt."

2SA 18:12  But the man replied, "Even if a thousand shekels were weighed 
out into my hands, I would not lift my hand against the king's son. In our 
hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Protect the young 
man Absalom for my sake.'

2SA 18:13  And if I had put my life in jeopardy--and nothing is hidden from 
the king--you would have kept your distance from me."

2SA 18:14  Joab said, "I'm not going to wait like this for you." So he took 
three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom's heart while 
Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.

2SA 18:15  And ten of Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him 
and killed him.

2SA 18:16  Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing 
Israel, for Joab halted them.

2SA 18:17  They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and 
piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled 
to their homes.

2SA 18:18  During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in 
the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, "I have no son 
to carry on the memory of my name." He named the pillar after himself, and 
it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.

2SA 18:33  The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and 
wept. As he went, he said: "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If 
only I had died instead of you--O Absalom, my son, my son!"

2SA 19:1  Joab was told, "The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom."

2SA 19:2  And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into 
mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, "The king is 
grieving for his son."

2SA 19:3  The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are 
ashamed when they flee from battle.

2SA 19:4  The king covered his face and cried aloud, "O my son Absalom! O 
Absalom, my son, my son!"

2SA 19:5  Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, "Today you 
have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives 
of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines.

2SA 19:6  You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have 
made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. 
I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us 
were dead.

2SA 19:7  Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if 
you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will 
be worse for you than all the calamities that have come upon you from your 
youth till now."

2SA 19:8  So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men 
were told, "The king is sitting in the gateway," they all came before him. 
Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

1KI 15:2  and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was 
Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1CH 3:2  the third, Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of Talmai king of 
Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

2CH 11:20  Then he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, 
Attai, Ziza and Shelomith.

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