BRAGADAYJAH 961

BRAGADAYJAH 961

Joab confronted the King

As King David continued to moan over the death of his son Absalom, it was told unto Joab how the king continued to moan day in and day out over Absalom; and Joab became very much annoyed and went before the king and told him flatly that he and the people perceived that the king cared more about his enemies than he did his friends, because it would seem to them that the king would have preferred that Absalom had killed them all rather than the other way around.  He further advised the king that the people who were his servants, and who had fought for him, were very much ashamed and were leaving with their heads hanged down and returning to their own homes.  He therefore advised the king to go forth and speak words of comfort to the people; for failing to do which, the people would all forsake him that very day.  So the king arose and sat in his gate; and it was told to the people that the king was sitting in the gate. And so the people who had gone away returned unto him. And there was strife among the people throughout the tribes of Israel; because while most had forsaken him for Absalom, some remained loyal and reminded them that it was David who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies, including the Philistines, and that he had to be on the run because of Absalom. But since Absalom whom they had anointed in his stead was now dead, some argued, why not return to the king?

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