撒母耳记下 16:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

戶篩回答押沙龍：“不！耶和華和這民，以及以色列眾人所揀選的，我應該歸屬他，與他在一起。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
户 筛 对 押 沙 龙 说 ： 不 然 ， 耶 和 华 和 这 民 ， 并 以 色 列 众 人 所 拣 选 的 ， 我 必 归 顺 他 ， 与 他 同 住 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Meanwhile, Absalom, Ahithophel, and all the Israelites arrived at Jerusalem. ¹⁶ David's friend Hushai the Arkite came to Absalom and said to him, "Long live the king! Long live the king!" ¹⁷ Absalom asked, "Why are you not loyal to your friend David? Why didn't you leave Jerusalem with your friend?" ¹⁸ Hushai said, "I belong to the one chosen by the Lord and by these people and everyone in Israel. I will stay with you. ¹⁹ In the past I served your father. So whom should I serve now? David's son! I will serve you as I served him." ²⁰ Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Tell us what we should do." ²¹ Ahithophel said, "Your father left behind some of his slave women to take care of the palace. Have sexual relations with them. Then all Israel will hear that your father is your enemy, and all your people will be encouraged to give you more support." ²² So they put up a tent for Absalom on the roof of the palace where everyone in Israel could see it. And Absalom had sexual relations with his father's slave women. ²³ At that time people thought Ahithophel's advice was as reliable as God's own word. Both David and Absalom thought it was that reliable.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 5:1-3, 1 Samuel 16:13

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:4 - General 1 Samuel 29:8 - that I may not 1 Kings 2:15 - Thou knowest 2 Kings 6:19 - I will bring

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hushai said to Absalom,.... In answer to his questions:

nay, but whom the Lord, and his people, and all the men of Israel choose: here again he speaks very ambiguously; for this circumlocution, or descriptive character of the king of Israel, better agrees with David, whom he might bear in mind, than with Absalom; for the Lord had chosen David, and he was anointed by his order, and all the people of Israel had chosen and anointed him likewise; but as for Absalom, it was only a part of them that had declared for him, nor was there any evidence of the Lord's choosing him; though Hushai undoubtedly would be under stood of him, and as interpreting the voice of the people to be the voice of God:

his will I be, and with him will I abide; though he designed no such thing, which was a great piece of dissimulation and hypocrisy; and if he meant David, it was a piece of deceit and equivocation: there is a various reading in the first clause; we follow the marginal reading,

לו, "to him" or "his", but the textual reading is לא, "not": and both may be taken in by rendering the words by an interrogation, "shall I, or should I not be his" d? I will; that is, be his servant, faithfully obey his commands, be closely attached to him, and continue with him as a loyal subject.

d לא אהיה "non ero", Montanus; "non essem ejus?" Junius & Tremellius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 16:18. Whom the Lord and this people - choose — Here is an equivocation; Hushai meant in his heart that God and all the people of Israel had chosen David; but he spake so as to make Absalom believe that he spoke of him: for whatever of insincerity may appear in this, Hushai is alone answerable. What he says afterwards may be understood in the same way.