24. Haele Davida, o ne a dutse pakeng tsa kgoro tse pedi, molebedi a ntse a tsamaya hodima lerako, hodima monyako. Ha a tadima, a bona ho hlaha monna ya mathang a nnotshi.
25. Molebedi a hoeletsa, a tsebisa morena. Morena a re: Ha a le nnotshi, ke ya tlisang ditaba. A nna a tsamaya, a atamela.
26. Molebedi a bona monna e mong wa bobedi ya mathang; molebedi a ba a memetsa molebedi wa monyako, a re: Ho hlahile monna e mong hape ya mathang a nnotshi. Morena a re: Le yena o tlisa ditaba.
27. Molebedi a eketsa a re: Ke batla ke re, ho matha ha wa pele ho tshwana le ho matha ha Akimaatse, mora Tsadoke. Morena a re: Ke motho ya molemo, o tlisa taba tse molemo.
28. Yaba Akimaatse o hoeletsa, a re ho morena: Tsohle di lokile! A inamela fatshe ka sefahleho pela morena, a re: Ho bokwe Jehova, Modimo wa hao, ya neetseng matsohong a hao banna ba kwenehetseng morena, monga rona.
29. Morena a re: Na mohlankana Absalome o sa pholohile na? Akimaatse a re: Ke bone moferefere o moholo, ha Joabe a roma mohlanka e mong wa morena, a nthoma le nna ke leng mohlanka wa hao, ke mpa ke sa ka ka tseba hore na ke wang?
30. Morena a re: Sutha, o eme mono. Mme a sutha, a emela thoko.
31. Ha fihla Kushi. Kushi a re: Morena, monga ka, a thabele taba tseo ke tlang le tsona; efela kajeno lena, Jehova o o pheteleditse ho ba o kwenehetseng.
32. Morena a re ho Kushi: Ana mohlankana Absalome o sa pholohile na? Kushi a re: Dira tsa morena, monga ka, le bohle ba o kwenehelang hore ba tla ba o hlahisetse bobe, ba be jwaloka mohlankana eo.