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English Standard Version

2 Samuel 16:15

Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahithophel;   Deception;   Diplomacy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hadadezer or Hadarezer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Samuel, Books of;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Ahithophel;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem. Ahithophel was also with him.
Hebrew Names Version
Avshalom, and all the people, the men of Yisra'el, came to Yerushalayim, and Achitofel with him.
King James Version
And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Lexham English Bible
Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had come to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
New Century Version
Meanwhile, Absalom, Ahithophel, and all the Israelites arrived at Jerusalem.
New English Translation
Now when Absalom and all the men of Israel arrived in Jerusalem, Ahithophel was with him.
Amplified Bible
Then Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
New American Standard Bible
Then Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Absalom, & all the people, the men of Israel, came to Ierusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Contemporary English Version
By this time, Absalom, Ahithophel, and the others had reached Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
Meanwhile Avshalom and all the people, the men of Isra'el, came to Yerushalayim; Achitofel was with him.
Darby Translation
Now Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Meanwhile, Absalom, Ahithophel, and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
And Absalom and all the people who were with him and all Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Good News Translation
Absalom and all the Israelites with him entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with them.
Literal Translation
And Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had come into Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Absalom and all the people of the men of Israel came to Ierusalem and Achitophel with him.
American Standard Version
And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Bible in Basic English
And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Absalom & al the people the men of Israel came to Hierusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
King James Version (1611)
And Absalom and al the people the men of Israel, came to Ierusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Abessalom and all the men of Israel went into Jerusalem, and Achitophel with him.
English Revised Version
And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Absolon, and al the puple of Israel entriden in to Jerusalem, but also Achitofel with hym.
Young's Literal Translation
And Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, have come in to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him,
Update Bible Version
And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
World English Bible
Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
New King James Version
Meanwhile Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem; and Ahithophel was with him.
New Living Translation
Meanwhile, Absalom and all the army of Israel arrived at Jerusalem, accompanied by Ahithophel.
New Life Bible
Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came into Jerusalem. And Ahithophel was with him.
New Revised Standard
Now Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem; Ahithophel was with him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, Absolom and all the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem, - and Ahithophel with him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and Achitophel was with him.
Revised Standard Version
Now Ab'salom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahith'ophel with him.
THE MESSAGE
By this time Absalom and all his men were in Jerusalem. And Ahithophel was with them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

Contextual Overview

15 Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. 16 And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!" 17 And Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?" 18 And Hushai said to Absalom, "No, for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain. 19 And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you." 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel. What shall we do?" 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened." 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. 23 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Absalom: 2 Samuel 15:37

Reciprocal: Psalms 3:1 - how

Cross-References

Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."
Genesis 16:11
And the angel of the Lord said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
Genesis 17:18
And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,
Genesis 25:12
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
Genesis 28:9
Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 37:27
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
1 Chronicles 1:28
The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem,.... At the same time that David and his people came to Bahurim; which, as Josephus z says, was a place near to Jerusalem; and, according to Bunting a, was little more than a mile from it; though elsewhere b he makes it three miles; so that had not David made the hasty flight he did, he had fallen into the hands of Absalom:

and Ahithophel with him: a famous counsellor, and who had been of David's privy council, and chief in it, see 2 Samuel 15:12 and whom David refers to in Psalms 55:12.

z Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9. sect. 4. a Travels, &c. p. 144. b Ib. p. 150.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 16:15. The men of Israel — These words are wanting in the Chaldee, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and Arabic, and in two of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.


 
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