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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 15:37

於是大衛的朋友戶篩進了城;押沙龍也進了耶路撒冷。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Diplomacy;   Falsehood;   Friendship;   Hushai;   Prudence;   Thompson Chain Reference - Friendship;   Friendship-Friendlessness;   Hushai;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hushai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Zadok;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Hushai;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baana;   Friend, Friendship;   Hushai;   King, Kingship;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hushai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   David;   Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahim'a-Az;   Hu'sha-I,;   Za'bud;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Friend;   Government;   Rei;   Samuel, Books of;   Zabud;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahimaaz;   Ahithophel;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
於 是 , 大 卫 的 朋 友 户 筛 进 了 城 ; 押 沙 龙 也 进 了 耶 路 撒 冷 。

Contextual Overview

31 Someone told David, "Ahithophel is one of the people with Absalom who made secret plans against you." So David prayed, " Lord , please make Ahithophel's advice foolish." 32 When David reached the top of the mountain where people used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite came to meet him. Hushai's coat was torn, and there was dirt on his head to show how sad he was. 33 David said to Hushai, "If you go with me, you will be just one more person for me to take care of. 34 But if you return to the city, you can make Ahithophel's advice useless. Tell Absalom, ‘I am your servant, my king. In the past I served your father, but now I will serve you.' 35 The priests Zadok and Abiathar will be with you. Tell them everything you hear in the royal palace. 36 Zadok's son Ahimaaz and Abiathar's son Jonathan are with them. Send them to tell me everything you hear." 37 So David's friend Hushai entered Jerusalem just as Absalom arrived.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

friend: 2 Samuel 16:16, 1 Chronicles 27:33

Absalom: 2 Samuel 16:15

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 4:5 - the king's

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Hushai David's friend came into the city,.... The city of Jerusalem, by the direction and persuasion of David, and in obedience to him, in order to serve him to the uttermost:

and Absalom came into Jerusalem: just at the same time; so that he knew not that Hushai had been out of it, and been with David, and which also appears from what he said to him, 2 Samuel 16:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 15:37. Absalom came into Jerusalem. — It is very probable that he and his partisans were not far from the city when David left it, and this was one reason which caused him to hurry his departure.

READER, behold in the case of David a sad vicissitude of human affairs, and a fearful proof of their instability. Behold a king, the greatest that ever lived, a profound politician, an able general, a brave soldier, a poet of the most sublime genius and character, a prophet of the Most High God, and the deliverer of his country, driven from his dominions by his own son, abandoned by his fickle people, and for a time even by his God! See in his desolate state that there is none so exalted that God cannot abase, and none so abased that God cannot exalt. He was forsaken for a time, and his enemies triumphed; God returned, and his enemies were confounded. His crime, it is true, was great and God had declared by Nathan what had now come to pass. God is just, and in numberless instances sees right to show his displeasure even at those sins which his mercy has forgiven. In all cases it is a fearful and bitter thing to sin against the Lord.


 
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