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2 Samuel 15:29

in 2 Samuel 15

So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.

KJV

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

This verse in 2 Samuel 15

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem,.... That is, ordered it to be carried, and took care that it was carried, by the Kohathite Levites, and they themselves attended it: and they tarried there; at Jerusalem; though their two sons that went with them entered not into the city, but stayed at a place called Enrogel, at some little distance from it, 2Sa 17:17.

This site's exposition

Art not thou a seer

on 2 Samuel 15:27-29

David turns Zadok and Abiathar into an intelligence line rather than fellow exiles. Barnes notes the Hebrew behind seer at verse 27 is difficult enough that some read chief in its place, though the sense David intends is plain either way. The two priests' sons, Ahimaaz and Jonathan, become the couriers running news out of the city at verse 28, a plan David sets running before he has even reached the wilderness.

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיָּ֨שֶׁבand he took back

    vaiyashevH77251056 times

  • צָד֧וֹקZadok

    tzadokH665953 times

  • וְאֶבְיָתָ֛רand Abiathar

    veevyatarH5430 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • אֲר֥וֹן[the] ark of

    ʾaronH727202 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים<the> God

    haelohimH4302601 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389643 times

  • וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּand they remained

    vaiyeshevuH34271079 times

  • שָֽׁם׃there

    shamH8033834 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.