2 Samuel 17:16 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 17:16

Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”

BSB

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ASV

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

KJV

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

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Commentary

2 voices

Basil of Caesarea

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 7.1 (379)

For in the history, Hushai is mentioned as the chief companion of David and the son of Arachi, but in the psalm, Hushai is the son of Jemini. Neither he nor any other of those appearing in the history was the son of Jemini. Perhaps he was called the son of Jemini for this reason, because he displayed great valor and strength through a mere pretense of friendship, going over, as he pretended, to Absalom, but in reality thwarting the plans of Ahithophel, a very skilled man, well trained in military affairs, who was giving his counsel.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Hushai, like a wise and prudent man, knowing, too, Absalom’s weak and fickle character, would not depend upon the resolution, taken at his instigation, not to pursue the king, but took instant measures to advertise David of his danger.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעַתָּ֡ה	ve.'a.Tah	and therefore	H6258 →
שִׁלְח֣וּ	shil.Chu	send	H7971 →
מְהֵרָה֩	me.he.Rah	quickly	H4120 →
וְהַגִּ֨ידוּ	ve.ha.Gi.du	and tell	H5046 →
לְדָוִ֜ד	le.da.Vid	to David	H1732 →
לֵאמֹ֗ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תָּ֤לֶן	Ta.len	you pass [the] night	H3885 →
הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙	ha.Lay.lah	this night	H3915 →
בְּעַֽרְב֣וֹת	be.'ar.Vot	at [the] desert plains of	H6160 →
הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר	ha.mid.Bar	the wilderness	H4057 →
וְגַ֖ם	ve.Gam	and also	H1571 →
עָב֣וֹר	a.Vor	certainly <to pass over>	H5674 →
תַּעֲב֑וֹר	ta.'a.Vor	you will pass over	H5674 →
פֶּ֚ן	pen	lest	H6435 →
יְבֻלַּ֣ע	ye.vu.La'	it should be swallowed up	H1104 →
לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ	la.Me.lekh	to the king	H4428 →
וּלְכָל־	u.le.khol-	and to all	H3605 →
הָעָ֖ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
אִתּֽוֹ׃	'i.To	[is] with him	H854 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 15:54
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
leads to
- Isaiah 25:8
  He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 2:14–15
  Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Revelation 21:4
  ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- Revelation 20:14
  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
- Luke 20:36
  In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.
Through
2 Corinthians 5:4
So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:53–54
  For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
- 2 Corinthians 5:2
  For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
- 2 Peter 1:13
  I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonUnited MonarchyDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.

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