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2 Samuel 19:7

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Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants; for I swear by Jehovah, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry a man with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now.

KJV

Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the Lord, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He speaks a great deal of reason, but not with the respect and deference which he owed to his prince. Is is fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? A plain case may be fairly pleaded with those that are above us, and they may be reproved for what they do amiss, but it must not be done with rudeness and insolence.

This site's exposition

Today you have disgraced all your servants

on 2 Samuel 19:5-7

Joab tells the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life”. He says David loves those who hate him and hates those who love him. He warns that “if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight”.

This site's exposition

not a man will remain

Joab swears by the LORD and could make it happen. The worst adversity of David's youth, the years hunted by Saul, would be outdone by an army melting away overnight. Matthew Henry allows a plain case to be pleaded to a superior, but without insolence.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Now therefore arise, go forth,....

The words behind it

29 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַתָּה֙and therefore

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • ק֣וּםarise

    kumH6965 →628 times

  • צֵ֔אgo out

    tze'H3318 →1067 times

  • וְדַבֵּ֖רand speak

    vedaberH1696 →1141 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • לֵ֣ב[the] heart of

    levH3820 →595 times

  • עֲבָדֶ֑יךָservants your

    ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

  • כִּי֩for

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בַיהוָ֨הby Yahweh

    bayahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֜עְתִּיI swear

    nishba'tiH7650 →186 times

  • כִּי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אֵינְךָ֣not you

    ʾeinekhaH369 →789 times

  • יוֹצֵ֗א[are] coming out

    yotze'H3318 →1067 times

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • יָלִ֨יןhe will lodge

    yalinH3885 →84 times

  • אִ֤ישׁa man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אִתְּךָ֙with you

    ʾitekhaH854 →929 times

  • הַלַּ֔יְלָהthis night

    halaylahH3915 →233 times

  • וְרָעָ֧הand it will be bad

    veraahH7489 →107 times

  • לְךָ֣for <the> you

    lekha

  • זֹ֗אתthis

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • מִכָּל־more than all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • הָרָעָה֙the harm

    haraahH7451 →662 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּ֣אָהit has come

    baahH935 →2568 times

  • עָלֶ֔יךָon you

    ʾaleikhaH5921 →5755 times

  • מִנְּעֻרֶ֖יךָsince youth<s> your

    mineureikhaH5271 →

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • עָֽתָּה׃ סnow

    ʾatahH6258 →433 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Proverbs 14:28A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.4 worksGenesis 34:3And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.3 worksPsalms 71:4–6Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.2 worksPsalms 71:9–11Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.2 worksIsaiah 40:1“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.2 worksPsalms 129:1–2Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—2 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 71:18–20Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.2 worksProverbs 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.2 worksHosea 2:14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.2 works2 Samuel 20:6And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”2 worksProverbs 17:26It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 40:1

    “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 1:4

      who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

    • Isaiah 51:12

      “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

    • Isaiah 51:3

      For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…

    • Zephaniah 3:14–17

      Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

    • Zechariah 1:13

      So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

  • Through

    Proverbs 14:28

    A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 4:20–21

      The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

  • Through

    Genesis 34:3

    And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 2:14

      “Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

    • Isaiah 40:2

      “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her…

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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