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30 And it happened, while they were on the way, that the news came to David, saying, |Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left.| 31 Then the king got up and tore his clothes and lay down on the ground. And all the servants who were standing around him also tore their clothes. 32 But Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, |My lord the king must not think that they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for only Amnon is dead. For this has been Absalom’s plan since the day that he raped his sister Tamar. 33 Now therefore do not let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.| 34 But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and he saw many men coming on the road behind him from the side of the mountain in the descent. And the watchman came and told the king, and said, |I have seen many men coming from the Horonan road by the side of the mountain.| 35 Jonadab said to the king, |Look, the king's sons are coming. It is as your servant said.| 36 It happened, as soon as he had finished speaking, that look, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly. 2 Samuel 13:30-36, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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