2 Samuel 18:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kemudian berkatalah raja kepada mereka: "Apa yang kamu pandang baik akan kuperbuat." Lalu berdirilah raja di sisi pintu gerbang dan seluruh tentara itu berjalan ke luar, beratus-ratus dan beribu-ribu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian berkatalah raja kepada mereka: "Apa yang kamu pandang baik akan kuperbuat." Lalu berdirilah raja di sisi pintu gerbang dan seluruh tentara itu berjalan ke luar, beratus-ratus dan beribu-ribu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka titah baginda: Bahwa aku hendak menurut barang yang baik pada sangkamu. Maka bagindapun berdirilah pada sisi pintu gerbang sementara segala rakyat itu keluar beratus-ratus dan beribu-ribu.

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

by the gate: 2 Samuel 18:24, Isaiah 28:6

by hundreds: David's small company, by this time, was greatly recruited; but what its number was we cannot tell. Josephus says it amounted only to 4,000 men. 2 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 29:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:8 - sat in the gate 1 Chronicles 19:9 - put the battle Matthew 16:18 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
And I wyll fet a morsell of bread to comfort your heartes withall, and then shall you go your wayes: for euen therefore are ye come to your seruaunt. And they sayde: do euen so as thou hast sayde.

Genesis 18:15
The Sara denied it, saying: I laughed not: for she was afrayde. And he sayde: it is not so, but thou laughedst.

Genesis 19:2
And he sayde: Oh my Lordes, turne in I praye you, into your seruauntes house, and tary all nyght, and washe your feete, and ye shall ryse vp early to go in your wayes. Whiche sayde, nay: but we wyll byde in the streates all nyght.

Genesis 24:32
And then the ma came into the house, and he vnharnessed the Camelles, and brought lytter and prouender for the Camelles, and water to wash his feete, & the mens feete that were with him.

Genesis 43:24
And the man led them into Iosephes house, and gaue them water to washe their feete, & gaue their asses prouender.

1 Samuel 25:41
And she arose, & bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and saide: Beholde, let thy handmayd be a seruaunt, to washe the feete of the seruauntes of my lorde.

Luke 7:44
And he turned to the woman, & sayde vnto Simon: Seest thou this woman? I entred into thyne house, thou gauest me no water for my feete, but she hath wasshed my feete with teares, & wyped them with the heeres of her head.

1 Timothy 5:10
And well reported of in good workes, yf she haue brought vp chyldren, yf she haue lodged straungers, yf she haue wasshed the saintes feete, yf she haue ministred vnto them that were in aduersitie, yf she haue ben continually geuen to euery good worke.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king said unto them, what seemeth you best I will do,.... Which was an instance of great condescension in him; and it was his wisdom and prudence to yield to them at such a time as this, and especially as their sentiments were founded on affection and loyalty to him:

and the king stood by the gate side; of the city of Mahanaim:

and all the people came out by hundreds, and by thousands; and passed by him, to whom no doubt he gave his blessing and best wishes; and, as Abarbinel thinks, now it was he composed and said the twentieth psalm, "The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble", &c. Psalms 20:1.