2 Samuel 18:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi tentara itu berkata: "Janganlah tuanku maju berperang; sebab apabila kami terpaksa melarikan diri, maka mereka tidak akan menghiraukan kami; bahkan sekalipun mati separuh dari pada kami, mereka tidak akan menghiraukan kami; tetapi tuanku sama harganya dengan sepuluh ribu orang dari pada kami. Sebab itu, adalah lebih baik, bahwa tuanku bersedia menolong kami dari kota."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi tentara itu berkata: "Janganlah tuanku maju berperang; sebab apabila kami terpaksa melarikan diri, maka mereka tidak akan menghiraukan kami; bahkan sekalipun mati separuh dari pada kami, mereka tidak akan menghiraukan kami; tetapi tuanku sama harganya dengan sepuluh ribu orang dari pada kami. Sebab itu, adalah lebih baik, bahwa tuanku bersedia menolong kami dari kota."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi sembah segala rakyat itu: Jangan apalah tuanku keluar serta, karena jikalau kiranya patik sekalian lari sekalipun, tiada diindahkannya, bahkan, jikalau dari pada patik sekalian matilah separuhnya sekalipun, tiada juga diindahkannya kelak, melainkan tuanku juga sekarang bagaikan selaksa patik ini. Lagipun sekarang terutama tuanku membantu patik dari dalam negeri.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Dauid numbred the people that were with him, and set captaynes of thousandes and of hundredes ouer them. ² And Dauid set foorth the third part of the people vnder the hande of Ioab, and the third part vnder the hand of Abisai the sonne of Zaruia Ioabs brother, and the other third part vnder the hand of Ithai the Gethite: And the king said vnto the people, I will go with you my selfe also. ³ And the people aunswered, Thou shalt not go foorth: for if we flee away, they wil not care for vs, neither shal they regard vs, though halfe of vs were slaine: but thou art nowe worth ten thousande of vs, Wherfore it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie. ⁴ And the king sayde vnto them: What seemeth you best, that wil I do. And the king stoode by the gate syde, and all the people came out by hundredes, and by thousandes. ⁵ And the king commaunded Ioab, and Abisai, and Ithai, saying: Intreate the young man Absalom gently for my sake. And all the people hearde that the king gaue all the captaynes charge concerning Absalom. ⁶ And so the people wet out into the fielde against Israel (and the battel was in the wood of Ephraim) ⁷ Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruauntes of Dauid: & there was a great slaughter that day, euen of twentie thousande men. ⁸ For the battell was scattered ouer al the countrey: And the wood deuoured mo people that day, then dyd the sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou shalt: 2 Samuel 21:17

if we flee: 2 Samuel 17:2, 1 Kings 22:31, Zechariah 13:7

care for us: Heb. set their heart on us

but now: The particle attah, Now, is doubtless a mistake for the pronoun attah, Thou, and so it appears to have been read by the LXX, Vulgate, and Chaldee, and by two of Kennicott's and De Rossi's manuscripts.

worth: etc. Heb. as ten thousand of us, Lamentations 4:20

succour: Heb. be to succour, 2 Samuel 10:11, Exodus 17:10-12

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:23 - and all this 1 Samuel 14:38 - chief Jeremiah 40:15 - wherefore Acts 19:30 - the disciples Romans 5:7 - some

Cross-References

Genesis 32:5
And haue oxen, asses, and sheepe, menseruauntes, and womenseruauntes: and haue sent to shewe [it] my Lord, that I may finde grace in thy sight.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the people answered, thou shalt not go forth,.... They were as resolute as David:

for if we flee away, they will not care for us; to pursue after us;

neither if half of us die, will they care for us; they will make no account of the victory; but if they could slay David, or get him into their hands, it would be more to them than if the whole army was routed:

but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us; not only in our own esteem, but in the account of the enemy, who had rather thou shouldest fall into their hands than ten thousand of us; and as the advantage to them, so the loss to us would be more than ten thousand men:

therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city; either by sending them provisions or recruits, that might be there in reserve, if necessary; or by being ready to receive them into it should they be repulsed; or rather by his prayers to God for them; so the Targum,

"now it is better that thou pray for us out of the city;''

that is, that the Lord would help us; and so most of the Jewish commentators understand it of helping them by his prayers and counsels.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Succour us out of the city - David, with a reserve, would hold the city, and either support the bands in case of need, or receive them within the walls should they be compelled to flee.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 18:3. But now thou art worth ten thousand of us — The particle יתה attah, now, is doubtless a mistake for the pronoun אתה attah, thou; and so it appears to have been read by the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Chaldee, and by two of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.