David and Absalom

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After a period of forty years had gone by, Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow that I made to GOD. For your servant made a vow when I lived in Geshur of Aram: If GOD ever brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship GOD.” The king said to him, “Go in peace”; and so he set out for Hebron. But Absalom sent agents to all the tribes of Israel to say, “When you hear the blast of the horn, announce that Absalom has become king in Hebron.” …

II Samuel 15:7-34

When David reached Mahanaim, Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbath-ammon, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim presented couches, basins, and earthenware; also wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans, lentils, parched grain, honey, curds, a flock, and cheese from the herd for David and the troops with him to eat. For they knew that the troops must have grown hungry, faint, and thirsty in the wilderness.

II Samuel 17:27-29

A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.
O LORD, my foes are so many!
Many are those who attack me;

Then the king said to Joab, “I will do this thing. Go and bring back my boy Absalom.” Joab flung himself face down on the ground and prostrated himself. Joab blessed the king and said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord king, for Your Majesty has granted his servant’s request.” And Joab went at once to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. But the king said, “Let him go directly to his house and not present himself to me.” So Absalom went directly to his house and did not present himself to the king…

II Samuel 14:21-33

And Rabbi Yoḥanan said other aggadic statements in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai: The existence of wayward children in a person’s home is more troublesome than the war of Gog and Magog, the ultimate war, the climax of the travails of Messianic times. As it is stated: “A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son, Absalom” (Psalms 3:1). And it is written thereafter: “Lord, how numerous are my enemies, many have risen against me” (Psalms 3:2). While concerning the war of Gog and Magog, which is alluded to in the second chapter of Psalms…

Berakhot 7b:11-14

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Have intercourse with your father’s concubines, whom he left to mind the palace; and when all Israel hears that you have dared the wrath of your father, all who support you will be encouraged.” So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom lay with his father’s concubines with the full knowledge of all Israel.—

II Samuel 16:21-22

David mustered the troops who were with him and set over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds. David sent out the troops, one-third under the command of Joab, one-third under the command of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and one-third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And David said to the troops, “I myself will march out with you.” But the troops replied, “No! For if some of us flee, the rest will not be concerned about us; even if half of us should die, the others will not be concerned about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us…

II Samuel 18:1-16

Similarly, Absalom went astray because David failed to chastise and punish him. He tried to kill (his father), he slept with his father’s ten concubines, he forced his father to wander about barefoot and weeping, he brought about the slaughter of thousands of Israelites, and caused him innumerable trials, as it is written:, A psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom, his son (Ps. 3:1), and this is followed by: Lord, how many are mine adversaries become.

Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 1:6

It is written: “Behold Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head” (II Samuel 15:32). Hushai said to David: Shall they say a king like you will engage in idol worship? David said to him: Is it preferable that they say with regard to a king like me, known to be righteous, that his son will kill him? David continued, referring to himself in third person: It is preferable that he shall engage in idol worship and the name of Heaven shall not be desecrated in public through the murder of a righteous king in this manner…

Sanhedrin 107a:13-14

“These are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his household” (Exodus 1:1).
That is what is written: “He who spares his rod hates his son, and he who loves him seeks for him admonition” (Proverbs 13:24). The way of the world is that a person whom another tells him: ‘So-and-so struck your son,’ he would harass him. What is the meaning when the verse states: “He who spares his rod hates his son”? It is to teach you that anyone who withholds rebuke from his son, his son will ultimately set out on a path of depravity and he will hate him…

Shemot Rabbah 1:1

It is taught: Rabbi Meir would say: From where is it derived that in accordance with the measure that a person metes out for others it is meted out for him? It is as it is stated: “In measure [besasse’a] in sending it away, You contend with it” (Isaiah 27:8). I have derived only a matter that is a se’a. From where is it derived regarding one who measures a tarkav, half a tarkav, a kav, half a kav, a rova, half a rova, toman, and ukhela…

Bamidbar Rabbah 9:24

Absalom had fled, and he came to Talmai son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And [King David] mourned over his son a long time. Absalom, who had fled to Geshur, remained there three years. And King David was pining away for Absalom, for [the king] had gotten over Amnon’s death.

II Samuel 13:37-39

The king was shaken. He went up to the upper chamber of the gateway and wept, moaning these words as he went, “My son Absalom! O my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son, my son!” Joab was told that the king was weeping and mourning over Absalom. And the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the troops, for that day the troops heard that the king was grieving over his son. The troops stole into town that day like troops ashamed after running away in battle…

II Samuel 19:1-9

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