2 Samuel 18:9
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 18:9Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
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There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.
But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’ ”
“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”
I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
“ ‘ “The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.
When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”
“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
The Lord Yahweh says: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
“ ‘ “They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
“ ‘You shall keep my statutes. “ ‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “ ‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “ ‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”