2 Samuel 16:22 Parallel Translations

So a tent was put up on the roof for Absalom, and he slept with his father's concubines in plain sight of Israel.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

ASV:

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

BBE:

So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

DBY:

So they spread a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

ERV:

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

JPS:

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.--

WBS:

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

WEB:

So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

YLT:

And they spread out for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom goeth in unto the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.

2 Samuel 16:22 Cross References

XREF:

2 Samuel 12:11 "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 12:12 'Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.'"

2 Samuel 15:16 So the king went out and all his household with him. But the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

2 Samuel 20:3 Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

16:22 The top - Of the king's palace, the very place from whence David had gazed upon Bathsheba, chap.11:2, so that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment. Went in - To one, or some of them. And by so doing did farther make claim to the kingdom; and, as it were, take possession of it. It being usual in the eastern countries to account the wives and concubines of the late king, to belong of right to the successor. Israel - Who saw him go into the tent; and thence concluded, that he lay with them, as he had designed to do. God had threatened by Nathan, that for his defiling Bathsheba, David's own wives should be defiled in the face of the sun. This is now fulfilled: the Lord is righteous; and no word of his shall fall to the ground.

MHC:

16:15-23 The wisest counsellors of that age were Ahithophel and Hushai: Absalom thinks himself sure of success, when he has both; on them he relies, and consults not the ark, though he had that with him. But miserable counsellors were they both. Hushai would never counsel him to do wisely. Ahithophel counselled him to do wickedly; and so did as effectually betray him, as he did, who was designedly false to him: for they that advise men to sin, certainly advise them to their hurt. After all, honesty is the best policy, and will be found so in the long run. Ahithophel gave wicked counsel to Absalom; to render himself so hateful to his father, that he would never be reconciled to him; this cursed policy was of the devil. How desperately wicked is the human heart!

CONC:

Absalom Ab'salom Concubines Father's Lay Pitched Roof Sight Spread Tent Women

Absalom Ab'salom Concubines Father's House Israel Lay Pitched Roof Sight Spread Tent Top Women

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