2 Samuel 15:33 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 15:33

David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And David said unto him, If thou passest on with me, then thou wilt be a burden unto me:

KJV

Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Then thou shalt be a burden unto me - It appears that Hushai was not a warrior, but was a wise, prudent, and discreet man, who could well serve David by gaining him intelligence of Absalom’s conspiracy; and he directs him to form a strict confederacy with the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and to make use of their sons as couriers between Jerusalem and David’s place of retreat.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
ל֖וֹ	lo	to <the> him
דָּוִ֑ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
אִ֚ם	'im	if	H518 →
עָבַ֣רְתָּ	'a.Var.ta	you pass over	H5674 →
אִתִּ֔י	'i.Ti	with me	H854 →
וְהָיִ֥תָ	ve.ha.Yi.ta	and you will become	H1961 →
עָלַ֖י	'a.Lai	on me	H5921 →
לְמַשָּֽׂא׃	le.ma.Sa'	<into> a burden	H4853 →

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Where the connections lead

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2 Samuel 19:35
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men…
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- Ezra 2:65
  in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
- Psalms 90:10
  The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Isaiah 5:11–12
  Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- Nehemiah 7:67
  in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1–5
  Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”