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2 Samuel 16:18

Lalu berkatalah Husai kepada Absalom: "Tidak, tetapi dia yang dipilih oleh TUHAN dan oleh rakyat ini dan oleh setiap orang Israel, dialah yang memiliki aku dan bersama-sama dengan dialah aku akan tinggal.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deception;   Diplomacy;   Falsehood;   Hushai;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hadadezer or Hadarezer;   Hushai;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hushai;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel;   Hushai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahithophel ;   Hushai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hushai;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah Husai kepada Absalom: "Tidak, tetapi dia yang dipilih oleh TUHAN dan oleh rakyat ini dan oleh setiap orang Israel, dialah yang memiliki aku dan bersama-sama dengan dialah aku akan tinggal.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah Husai kepada Absalom: Bukan, melainkan barangsiapa yang dipilih oleh Tuhan dan oleh segala rakyat ini dan oleh segala orang Israel, ia itu juga yang empunya patik ini dan dengan dia juga patik hendak tinggal.

Contextual Overview

15 And Absalom & al the people the men of Israel came to Hierusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. 16 And assoone as Husai the Arachite Dauids frend, was come vnto Absalo, Husai sayde vnto Absalom: God saue the king, God saue the king. 17 And Absalom sayde to Husai: Is this the kindnesse to thy frende? Why wentest thou not with him? 18 Husai aunswered vnto Absalom, Nay not so: But whom the Lorde and this people and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, & with him wil I dwell. 19 And moreouer, vnto whom shal I do seruice? not to his sonne? And as I was seruaunt before thy father, so will I before thee. 20 Then spake Absalom to Ahithophel: Geue counsel what we shall do. 21 And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom: Get thee in vnto thy fathers cocubines whiche he hath left to kepe the house, and all Israel shal heare, that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hades of al that are with thee, be strong. 22 And so they spread Absalom a tent vpon the toppe of the house, and Absalom went in vnto his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel. 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel whiche he counseled in those dayes, was as a man had asked counsel at the oracle of God: euen so was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both with Dauid and with Absalom.

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.


 
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