Yeah, so what you have is you have Shimei the rebel, you have Maphibishath the suspected rebel,

and then you have Barzilli who actually did good to David.

Yeah.

He was a supporter of David.

David is treating each of these individuals charitably, magnanimously, and I think the point

of seeing all of these kind of individuals in place and David treating them the same is to highlight what happens between the beginning.

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that. I thought we were just saying random things you could give to. All right. So last week, guys, we talked about Absalom's demise, and we talked about David's despair

on the heels of that.

When we finished Second Samuel 18, the king is in mourning.

And Jim, again, I just want to mention, you did such a good job reading it last week.

I just thank you.

You read it with just, I think, the exact right tone. And I think it was a model for all of us.

So today we're going to talk about the aftermath of Absalom's death. We're going to cover

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