1And David moved a little from the place where he was worshiping, and Tsiba the young Manservant of Maphibshath came to meet him, and he brought with him two donkeys carrying a load, and there were on them two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred cakes of figs and a hundred cheeses and a skin of wine 2The King said to Tsiba: “From where do you have these?” Tsiba said to the King: “The donkeys which carry the produce of the house of the King, and the bread and the cheese that the young Manservants may eat, and the wine that those who are weakened in the wilderness would drink 3And the King said to him: “Where is the son of your Master?” Tsiba said to him: “Now he dwells in Jerusalem, and he said, ‘The sons of Israel shall return the kingdom of Shaul my father to me” 4David said to Tsiba: “Everything is given to you that was Maphibshath’s.” And Tsiba said to him: “I have much and I have found kindness in your eyes my Lord, oh King!”

5And King David came unto Bayth Khorim, and one man from the family of the house of Shaul went out from there, and his name was Shemi, son of Gera. He went out and insulted David 6And he threw stones at him, with stones at him and at all his Servants and all the people and all his Servants who were at his right and at his left 7And thus Shemi was saying to David when he was insulting him: “Get out! Get out, man shedder of blood and evil one! 8LORD JEHOVAH will pay you all the blood of the house of Shaul, for you have reigned after him, and LORD JEHOVAH has delivered his kingdom into the hands of Abishlum your son, and behold, you are paid for your evil, because you are a man shedder of blood!”

9Abishi son of Tsuriya said to David: “Why is this dead dog insulting my Lord the King? I shall take off his head!” 10King David said to him: “What business do I have with you sons of Tsuriya? Let him insult. LORD JEHOVAH has said to him: “Insult David!”, but who says to me, “Why does he think of me thus?" 11David said to Abishi and to all his Servants: “Behold, my son who came out from my loins seeks to take my life, and also, behold, the sons of my right hand. Let him insult! THE LORD JEHOVAH has spoken to him. 12Now LORD JEHOVAH shall see my submission, and he shall pay me good in exchange for the abuses of today” 13And David was going, and his Servants, on the road, and Shemi was going on the side of the mountain opposite him. He was insulting him and he was stoning him with stones and he was throwing dirt at him 14And the King came and all the people that were with him, as they were weary and they rested there

15And Abishlum and all the people that were with him and all Israel came to Jerusalem, and Akhithuphil with him 16And when Khushi the Arkite the friend of David had come to Abishlum, Khushi said to Abishlum: “The King lives! the King lives!” 17Abishlum said to Khushi: “This is the love of your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?” 18Khushi said to Abishlum: “Is it not with him whom LORD JEHOVAH chose, and this people and all Israel, his possession with whom I shall stay, and I shall be his? 19And for the second time, whose Servant am I? I have not had anything in my hands, even as when I served before your father. Thus I shall serve before you”

20Abishlum said to Akhithuphel: “Counsel me. What shall I do?” 21Akhithuphel said to Abishlum: “Go into the Concubines of your father whom he left to keep his house, and whenever all Israel hears that you were with the Concubines of your father, the hands of everyone whoever is with you will be strengthened” 22And they pitched for Abishlum a tent on the roof, and Abishlum entered into the Concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel 23And the counsel that Akhithuphel was counseling in those days was like a person inquiring of the Word of God. As all the counsel of Akhithuphel was to David, so also it was to Abishlum