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THE DEATH OF ABI SHALOM
And Abi Shalom faces the servants of David: and Abi Shalom rides on a mule; and the mule goes under the thicket of a great oak; and the oak holds his head given between the heavens and between the earth; and the mule under him passes on. 10 And one man sees it and tells Yah Ab and says, Behold, I see Abi Shalom hang in an oak. 11 And Yah Ab says to the man that tells him, Behold, you see! Why smote you not him there to the earth? - and I had given you ten silver and one girdle. 12 And the man says to Yah Ab, If I weigh a thousand silver on my palm I send not my hand against the son of the sovereign: for in our ears the sovereign misvahed you and Abi Shai and Ittay saying, Guard against the lad - against Abi Shalom: 13 or I had worked falsehood against my own soul: for no word is concealed from the sovereign - and you yourself had set yourself against me. 14 Then Yah Ab says, Not so: I await at your face. And he takes three scions in his palm and stakes them through the heart of Abi Shalom while he is yet alive in the heart of the oak: 15 and ten lads bearing the instruments of Yah Ab surround Abi Shalom and smite and deathify him: 16 and Yah Ab blasts the shophar and the people return from pursuing Yisra El: for Yah Ab restrains the people. 17 And they take Abi Shalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest and station a mighty great heap of stones on him: and all Yisra El flees every man to his tent. 18 And in his lifetime Abi Shalom takes and stations a monolith for himself in the Valley of the Sovereign: for he says, I have no son to memorialize my name: and he calls the monolith after his own name: and it is called to this day, The Hand of Abi Shalom.
THE DEATH OF ABI SHALOM
And Abi Shalom faces the servants of David: and Abi Shalom rides on a mule; and the mule goes under the thicket of a great oak; and the oak holds his head given between the heavens and between the earth; and the mule under him passes on. 10 And one man sees it and tells Yah Ab and says, Behold, I see Abi Shalom hang in an oak. 11 And Yah Ab says to the man that tells him, Behold, you see! Why smote you not him there to the earth? - and I had given you ten silver and one girdle. 12 And the man says to Yah Ab, If I weigh a thousand silver on my palm I send not my hand against the son of the sovereign: for in our ears the sovereign misvahed you and Abi Shai and Ittay saying, Guard against the lad - against Abi Shalom: 13 or I had worked falsehood against my own soul: for no word is concealed from the sovereign - and you yourself had set yourself against me. 14 Then Yah Ab says, Not so: I await at your face. And he takes three scions in his palm and stakes them through the heart of Abi Shalom while he is yet alive in the heart of the oak: 15 and ten lads bearing the instruments of Yah Ab surround Abi Shalom and smite and deathify him: 16 and Yah Ab blasts the shophar and the people return from pursuing Yisra El: for Yah Ab restrains the people. 17 And they take Abi Shalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest and station a mighty great heap of stones on him: and all Yisra El flees every man to his tent. 18 And in his lifetime Abi Shalom takes and stations a monolith for himself in the Valley of the Sovereign: for he says, I have no son to memorialize my name: and he calls the monolith after his own name: and it is called to this day, The Hand of Abi Shalom.