¹It was told Joab, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

¹Queßxye resil re laj Joab nak li rey David yô chi yâbac ut ra saß xchßôl chirix lix camic laj Absalón.

²The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

²Lix sahileb saß xchßôl nak nequeßrêchani li plêt quisukßi chokß rahil chßôlej xban nak ra saß xchßôl li rey David chirix lix camic li ralal.

³The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

³Nak eb li soldados queßcuulac, chi mukmu queßoc saß li tenamit joß nequeßxbânu li yôqueb xxutân nak nequeßêlelic chak saß li plêt.

⁴The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

⁴Li rey David quixtzßap li ru ut quiyâbac chi cau. Quixye: —¡At Absalón! ¡At cualal! ¡At cualal! chan.

⁵Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

⁵Laj Joab cô saß rochoch li rey ut quixye re: —Anakcuan xacßut xxutâneb lâ soldados li nequeßcßanjelac châcuu. Aßaneb xeßcoloc âcue ut xeßxcol ajcuiß lâ cualal âcßajol ut eb lâ cuixakil joß eb li ixk li cuanqueb âcuiqßuin.

⁶in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

⁶Lâat xicß nacacuileb li nequeßrahoc âcue ut li incßaß nequeßrahoc âcue nacaraheb. Châcuu lâat mâcßaß nequeßoc cuiß li soldados li nequeßcßanjelac châcuu, chi moco li nequeßtaklan saß xbêneb. Anakcuan ninnau nak cui ta toj yoßyo laj Absalón, sa raj saß âchßôl usta ac xocamsîc chikajunilo lâo.

⁷Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

⁷Ayu chirix cab ut tâcßojob xchßôleb lâ soldados xban nak cui incßaß nacabânu aßan, saß xcßabaß li Kâcuaß, lâin ninye âcue nak mâ jun chic reheb lâ soldados teßoquênk châcuix. Chiru ajcuiß li kßojyîn aßin tateßxcanab âjunes. Ut mâre aßan li kßaxal ra tâcßul chiruheb li raylal xacßul chalen saß âsâjilal, chan.

⁸Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

⁸Joßcan nak laj David cô ut quichunla cuißchic chire li oquebâl re li tenamit. Eb li tenamit queßrabi resil nak cuan aran ut chixjunileb li soldados queßxchßutub ribeb riqßuin. Nak yô chi cßulmânc aßin, chixjunileb laj Israel, li queßoquen chirix laj Absalón yôqueb chi êlelic ut queßcôeb saß li rochocheb.

⁹All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

⁹Yalak bar saß chixjunil li naßajej Israel yôqueb chixcuechßinquil ribeb chi ribileb rib. Yôqueb chixyebal: —Li rey David coxcol chiruheb li xicß nequeßiloc ke. Xoxcol chiruheb laj filisteo. Abanan anakcuan xcanab lix tenamit ut x-êlelic chiru laj Absalón xban xxiu.

¹⁰Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”

¹⁰Lâo xkaxakab laj Absalón chokß karey ut anakcuan xcamsîc chak saß li plêt. ¿Cßaßut nak incßaß xeßxtzßâma chiru li rey David nak tâsukßîk chak? chanqueb.

¹¹King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

¹¹Li rey David quirabi resil li cßaßru yôqueb chixyebal. Joßcan nak quixtakla xyebal reheb laj Sadoc ut laj Abiatar, eb laj tij: —Tex-âtinak riqßuineb li nequeßcßamoc be saß xyânkeb laj Judá ut patzßomak reheb cßaßut nak yôqueb chi bâyc chixtzßâmanquil chicuu nak tinsukßîk cuißchic saß li cuochoch. Eb aßan raj li xbên li xeßxtzßâma chicuu nak tinsukßîk.

¹²You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

¹²Lâex cuechßalal. Kacomon kib. ¿Cßaßut nak yôquex chi bâyc chixtzßâmanquil chicuu nak tinsukßîk cuißchic saß cuochoch? Lâex raj li xbên li xetzßâma chicuu nak tinsukßîk, chan.

¹³Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.’”

¹³Laj David quixye reheb nak teßxye re laj Amasa chi joßcaßin: —¿Ma mâcuaß ta biß lâat cuechßalal? Chalen anakcuan lâat chic tattaklânk saß xbêneb lin soldados chokß rêkaj laj Joab. Aß taxak li Dios chiqßuehok cue chixtojbal inmâc cui incßaß tinbânu li cßaßru yôquin chixyechißinquil âcue, chan.

¹⁴He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

¹⁴Ut queßxcßul xchßôl li cßaßru quitaklâc xyebal reheb xban laj David. Ut chixjunileb li cuanqueb Judá junajeb xchßôl nak queßxtakla resil nak laj David tâsukßîk rochbeneb chixjunileb li nequeßcßanjelac chiru.

¹⁵So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

¹⁵Quisukßi ut li rey David. Quicuulac cuan cuiß li nimaß Jordán. Eb li cuanqueb Judá queßcôeb Gilgal re xcßulbal li rey ut re ajcuiß nak teßxtenkßaheb chi numecß jun pacßal li nimaß.

¹⁶Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

¹⁶Ut laj Simei quixsêba rib chi xic chixcßulbal li rey David chirixeb laj Judá. Laj Simei, aßan ralal laj Gera. Bahurim xtenamit. Ut laj Gera, aßan xcomoneb li ralal xcßajol laj Benjamín.

¹⁷There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

¹⁷Laj Simei quixcßameb chirix jun mil chi cuînk xcomoneb li ralal xcßajol laj Benjamín. Cuan rochbeneb aßan laj Siba, li quicuan chokß xmôs laj Saúl. Laj Siba quixcßam chirix oßlaju li ralal ut junmay lix môseb. Eb aßan queßnumeß jun pacßal li nimaß Jordán nak toj mâjiß nacuulac li rey.

¹⁸A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.

¹⁸Queßnumeß jun pacßal li nimaß re nak teßxtenkßa li rey chi numecß saß li nimaß joß eb ajcuiß li cuanqueb rochben. Queßraj nak li rey tâsahokß xchßôl riqßuineb. Nak li rey quicuulac saß li nimaß, laj Simei li ralal laj Gera quixcuikßib rib chiru.

¹⁹He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, nor remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

¹⁹Ut quixye re: —At rey, nintzßâma châcuu nak tâcuy inmâc. Mâqßue saß âchßôl li mâc li quinbânu châcuu nak cat-el aran Jerusalén. Incßaß taxak tâqßue saß inbên li incßaß us xinbânu.

²⁰For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

²⁰Lâin ninnau nak quinmâcob châcuu. Joßcan nak lâin li xbên li xincßulun anakcuan châcßulbal, at rey. Lâin xbên cua xincßulun chiruheb chixjunileb li ralal xcßajol laj José, chan.

²¹But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

²¹Ut laj Abisai, lix yum lix Sarvia, quixye: —¿Ma incßaß ta biß xcßulub nak tâcâmk laj Simei xban nak catxmajecua lâat, li sicßbil âcuu xban li Kâcuaß? chan.

²²David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don’t I know that I am this day king over Israel?”

²²Ut li rey David quixye: —Lâex lix yum lix Sarvia, mâcuaß lâex texyehok cue cßaßru tinbânu. ¿Cßaßut nak têraj nak tinêtakla? Lâin lix reyeb laj Israel. Lâin ninye nak mâ ani tâcamsîk saß li cutan aßin, chan.

²³The king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” The king swore to him.

²³Ut li rey David quixbânu li juramento ut quixye re laj Simei nak incßaß tâcamsîk.

²⁴Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

²⁴Laj Mefi-boset, li ri laj Saúl, cô ajcuiß chixcßulbal li rey. Chalen nak cô li rey incßaß quixchßaj li rok, chi moco quixjo lix mach, chi moco quixpuchß li rakß toj retal nak quisukßi chak chi sa saß xchßôl.

²⁵It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

²⁵Nak ac xcßulun Jerusalén, li rey quixye re: —At Mefi-boset, ¿cßaßut nak incßaß côat chicuix? chan.

²⁶He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

²⁶Laj Mefi-boset quixye re: —At rey, lâat nacanau nak incßaß ninbêc. Lâin quinye re lin môs nak tixyîb rix lin bûr re nak tinxic châcuix. Abanan lin môs xinixbalakßi.

²⁷He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

²⁷Lin môs xyoßob ticßtiß chicuix châcuu, at rey. Abanan, lâat chanchanat lix ángel li Dios. Lâat tâbânu li cßaßru nacanau nak us xbânunquil.

²⁸For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

²⁸Chixjunileb lix comon lin yucuaß xcßulubeb raj nak catakla xcamsinquileb chixjunileb, at rey. Abanan lâat xinâqßue chi cuaßac âcuochben. Mâcuaß incßulub nak tintzßâma usilal châcuu, at rey, chan.

²⁹The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

²⁹Li rey quixye re: —¿Cßaßru aj e nak toj yôco chi âtinac chirix aßan? Ac xinye nak têjach li chßochß chêrix âcuochben laj Siba, chan.

³⁰Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

³⁰Ut laj Mefi-boset quixye: —Canâk chokß re laj Siba chixjunil li chßochß. Li kßaxal us chokß cue lâin, aßan nak xatcßulun cuißchic saß lâ cuochoch chi sa saß âchßôl, chan.

³¹Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

³¹Laj Barzilai qui-el saß xtenamit Rogelim li cuan saß xcuênt Galaad ut cô cuan cuiß li nimaß Jordán re nak târochbeni li rey nak tânumekß junpacßal li nimaß.

³²Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

³²Laj Barzilai ac tîx chic. Câcßâl chihab cuan re. Aßan li cuînk li quiqßuehoc xtzacaêmk li rey nak cuan aran Mahanaim xban nak kßaxal biom.

³³The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”

³³Li rey David quixye re laj Barzilai: —Yoßo chicuix Jerusalén ut lâin tinchßolanînk âcue, chan.

³⁴Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

³⁴Abanan laj Barzilai quixye re: —At rey, lâin incßaß chic najt tincuânk saß ruchichßochß. ¿Cßaßru aj e nak tinxic Jerusalén châcuix?

³⁵I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

³⁵Lâin cuan câcßâl chihab cue anakcuan. Mâcßaß chic naxqßue xsahil inchßôl. Incßaß chic ninnau cßaßru li sa xtzacanquil, chi moco naru tincuutzß ma sunûnc malaj ut incßaß sunûnc li cua cuucßa. Chi moco naru chic nacuabi lix bicheb li nequeßbichan. ¿Cßaßut nak tinqßue îk saß âbên re cuilbal?

³⁶Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

³⁶Lâin xinchal châcuochbeninquil nak tatnumekß saß li nimaß Jordán. ¿Cßaßut nak tinâkßajcâmu riqßuin aßan?

³⁷Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

³⁷At rey, nintzßâma châcuu nak tâqßue inlesêns chi sukßîc saß lin tenamit re nak aran tincâmk ut tinmukekß chixcßatk lix muklebâleb lin naß inyucuaß. Cuan arin laj Quimam, li cualal. Aßan aj cßanjel châcuu. Aßan tâxic châcuix, at rey. Tâbânu riqßuin aßan li cßaßru nacacßoxla nak us xbânunquil, chan.

³⁸The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you.”

³⁸Li rey quixye re laj Barzilai: —Xicak chicuix laj Quimam joß xaye. Lâin tinbânu riqßuin joß nacacßoxla nak us xbânunquil. Lâin tinbânu li cßaßru tâye cue, chan laj David.

³⁹All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

³⁹Chixjunileb li tenamit queßnumeß jun pacßal li nimaß Jordán. Ut quinumeß ajcuiß li rey. Quirutzß ru laj Barzilai ut quixtzßâma chiru li Dios nak târosobtesi. Chirix aßan laj Barzilai cô cuißchic saß rochoch.

⁴⁰So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

⁴⁰Li rey quinumeß Gilgal ut laj Quimam cuan rochben. Chixjunileb li cuanqueb Judá queßcôeb rochben li rey, joß eb ajcuiß yijach li cuanqueb Israel.

⁴¹Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

⁴¹Ut chixjunileb laj Israel queßcôeb riqßuin li rey ut queßxye re: —At rey, ¿cßaßut nak eb li kas kîtzßin li cuanqueb Judá xeßochbenin âcue nak xatnumeß saß li nimaß Jordán âcuochbeneb chixjunileb lâ cualal âcßajol ut eb lâ soldados? chanqueb.

⁴²All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

⁴²Eb li ralal xcßajol laj Judá queßchakßoc ut queßxye: —Lâo xo-ochbenin re li rey xban nak kechßalal kib riqßuin. ¿Cßaßut nak xexjoskßoß kiqßuin? ¿Ma yôco ta biß chi cuaßac riqßuin li rey? ¿Ma xqßue ta biß kamâtan? chanqueb.Eb li ralal xcßajol laj Israel queßxye reheb: —Lâo yal ke saß xbên li rey. ¿Cßaßut nak nocoêtzßektâna? ¿Ma mâcuaß ta biß lâo kßaxal nabalo chêru lâex? Ut lâo li xbên li xkaye nak tâsukßîk cuißchic li rey, chanqueb. Ut eb li ralal xcßajol laj Judá kßaxal cau cuißchic queßâtinac chiruheb li ralal xcßajol laj Israel.

⁴³The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

⁴³Eb li ralal xcßajol laj Israel queßxye reheb: —Lâo yal ke saß xbên li rey. ¿Cßaßut nak nocoêtzßektâna? ¿Ma mâcuaß ta biß lâo kßaxal nabalo chêru lâex? Ut lâo li xbên li xkaye nak tâsukßîk cuißchic li rey, chanqueb. Ut eb li ralal xcßajol laj Judá kßaxal cau cuißchic queßâtinac chiruheb li ralal xcßajol laj Israel.