2 Samuël 20:6

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

zeide David tot Abisjai: Nu zal Sjeba, de zoon van Bichri, ons nog gevaarlijker worden dan Absalom. Neem gij dus de dienaren uws heren en zet hem na; opdat hij geen versterkte steden bereike en zich aan ons oog onttrekke.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen sprak David tot Abisa: Nu zal Seba, de zoon van Bichri, ons meer leed doen dan Absalom. Neem gij de knechten uws heren en jaag hem na, opdat hij nergens vaste steden voor zich vinde en ontkome uit onze ogen.

Staten Vertaling
Toen zeide David tot Abisai: Nu zal ons Seba, de zoon van Bichri, meer kwaads doen, dan Absalom; neem gij de knechten uws heren, en jaag hem achterna, opdat hij niet misschien vaste steden voor zich vinde, en zich aan onze ogen onttrekke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Abishai: 2 Samuel 2:18, 2 Samuel 3:30, 2 Samuel 3:39, 2 Samuel 10:9, 2 Samuel 10:10, 2 Samuel 10:14, 2 Samuel 18:2, 2 Samuel 18:12, 2 Samuel 21:17, 2 Samuel 23:18, 1 Samuel 26:6, 1 Chronicles 11:20, 1 Chronicles 18:12

do us: 2 Samuel 19:7

thy lord's: 2 Samuel 11:11, 1 Kings 1:33

escape us: Heb. deliver himself from our eyes

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:19 - suffer them Joshua 10:20 - fenced cities 2 Samuel 19:43 - We have 2 Samuel 20:11 - He that Jeremiah 8:14 - enter Mark 3:24 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said to Abishai,.... For it seems he would have nothing to say to Joab, being displeased with him for slaying Absalom, and having removed him from his posts; and therefore speaks to the next officer in his army, Abishai; though Josephus p says, he addressed himself to Joab, contrary to the express words of the text:

now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom; gain a greater party, and give more trouble to subdue him, unless suppressed in time:

take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him; without waiting for Amasa, and the troops he was assembling; delays in such a case as an insurrection being dangerous, which ought to be nipped in the bud, and crushed as soon as possible; in order to which, he bids him take his servants that were about him, his bodyguards, and pursue Sheba:

lest he get him fenced cities; where he may secure himself, and hold out a siege a long time, and give a great deal of trouble:

and escape us; for the present; or "escape our eyes", as the "Keri", or marginal reading is; we shall lose sight of him, and not know which way he is gone, if he is not pursued quickly.

p Antiqu. l. 7. c. 11. sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To Abishai - Probably, as the king was on bad terms with Joab, and wished to deprive him of his post as Captain of the host, he gave his orders to Abishai, and weakly connived at the execution of them by Joab, which was inevitable.