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finished reading 2 Samuel 16, 2 Samuel 17, 2 Samuel 18 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine....

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:23 ESV

"Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:21 ESV

Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:18 ESV

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:16 ESV

Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:13 ESV

On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof."

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:9 ESV

And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:5 ESV

And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:4 ESV

The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:2 ESV

And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you."

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highlighted 2 Samuel 18:1 ESV

Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 17:5 ESV

Then Absalom said, "Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say."

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highlighted 2 Samuel 17:27 ESV

When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

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highlighted 2 Samuel 17:23 ESV

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 17:14 ESV

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 17:15 ESV

Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 17:1 ESV

Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 16:18 ESV

And Hushai said to Absalom, "No, for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 16:22-23 ESV

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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highlighted 2 Samuel 16:15 ESV

Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

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