2 Samuel 17:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Demikianlah aku akan membawa pulang seluruh rakyat itu kepadamu seperti seorang mempelai perempuan kembali kepada suaminya. Jadi, engkau mencari nyawa satu orang saja, sedang seluruh rakyat tetap selamat."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Demikianlah aku akan membawa pulang seluruh rakyat itu kepadamu seperti seorang mempelai perempuan kembali kepada suaminya. Jadi, engkau mencari nyawa satu orang saja, sedang seluruh rakyat tetap selamat."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka segala rakyat itu patik pulangkan kelak kepada tuanku: adapun orang yang tuanku cahari itu, ia itu bagaikan pulang semuanya; kemudian sentosalah kelak sekalian orang banyak itu.

Contextual Overview

¹ Ahithophel also said vnto Absalom: Let me choose out now twelue thousand men, and I wil vp and folowe after Dauid this night: ² And I wil come vpo him whyle he is weery and weake handed, and will feare him: And all the people that are with him, shall flee, and so will I smite the king only, ³ And wil bring againe all the people vnto thee: and when al shall returne, the man whom thou sekest [beyng slayne] all the people shalbe in peace. ⁴ And the saying pleased Absalom wel and al the elders of Israel. ⁵ Then sayde Absalom: Cal nowe Husai the Arachite also, and let vs heare lykewyse what he sayth. ⁶ When Husai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake vnto him, saying: Ahithophel hath geuen such counsel: Shal we do after his saying, or no? tell thou. ⁷ Husai aunswered vnto Absalom: The counsel that Ahithophel hath geuen, is not good at this time. ⁸ For sayde Husai, thou knowest thy father & his men howe that they be strong men, and they be chased in their mindes, and are euen as a Beare robbed of her whelpes in the fielde: Thy father is a man also practised in warre, and wil not lodge with the people. ⁹ Behold he is hyd nowe in some caue, or in some other place: And though some of his men be ouerthrowen at the first brunt, yet they that heare it, will say: The people that foloweth Absalom, be put to the worse. ¹⁰ And he also that is valiaunt, whose heart is as ye heart of a Lio, shal shrink and faynt: For all Israel knoweth, that thy father is a mightie man, and they which be with him are stout men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will bring: 2 Samuel 3:21

shall be: Isaiah 48:22, Isaiah 57:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Reciprocal: Judges 4:22 - and I will 2 Samuel 20:21 - his head

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham sayde vnto God: O that Ismael myght lyue in thy syght.

Genesis 17:23
Abraham toke Ismael his sonne, and such as were borne in his house, & al that was bought with money, as many as were men chyldren, whiche were amongst the men of Abrahams house, & circumcised the fleshe of their foreskinne euen in the selfe same day, as God had sayde vnto hym.

Genesis 17:24
Abraham also hym selfe was ninetie yere olde and nine when the fleshe of his foreskynne was circumcised.

Exodus 3:6
And he sayde: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob. And Moyses hid his face, for he was afrayde to loke vpon God.

Numbers 14:5
Then Moyses & Aaron fell on their faces before all the assemblie of the congregation of the chyldren of Israel.

Numbers 16:22
And they fell vpon their faces, and sayde: O God, the God of spirites of all fleshe, hath not one man sinned? Wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?

Numbers 16:45
Get you from among this congregation, that I may consume the quickly. And they fell vpon their faces.

Joshua 5:14
And he sayde, Naie: but as a captaine of the hoast of the Lord am I nowe come. And Iosuah fell on his face to ye earth, and did worship, and sayde vnto him: What saith my Lord vnto his seruaunt?

Judges 13:20
And whe the flambe came vp toward heauen from the aulter, the angell of the Lorde ascended vp in the flambe of the aulter: And Manoah and his wyfe loked vpon it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will bring back all the people unto thee,.... Meaning not the people only that were with David, that he would make them prisoners, and bring them with him; for he before proposed to let them make their escape; but to reduce all Israel to the obedience of Absalom at once, by executing this scheme which he had formed:

the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned; meaning David, whom he speaks of contemptibly, and whose life it seems Absalom sought, as well as his crown; and he being dead, it would be all over at once with the people; they would immediately return to their own habitations, and yield obedience to Absalom as the rightful heir and successor; all depended on his death, he intimates: from whence it appears that Abarbinel is wrong in suggesting that Absalom did not design to take away the life of his father, only to secure the kingdom to himself in his father's lifetime, who he understood had disposed of it by his will to Solomon; but here Ahithophel plainly declares the intention of Absalom, nor would he have proposed in plain terms to take away the king's life, had Absalom been averse to it; and it is plain by what follows that the thing was pleasing to him:

[so] all the people shall be in peace; both parties coalesce under the government of Absalom, and live peaceably under it, and so an entire end of the war.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The man whom thou seekest - namely, David. Ahithophel means to say: “If I can only smite David, there will be no civil war, all the people will peaceably submit.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 17:3. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned — Only secure David, and all Israel will be on thy side. He is the soul of the whole; destroy him, and all the rest will submit.