1 Esdræ 12:17

Nova Vulgata

[12:18] Egressusque est David obviam eis et ait: "Si pacifice venistis ad me, ut auxiliemini mihi, cor meum iungatur vobis; si autem insidiamini mihi pro adversariis meis, cum ego iniquitatem in manibus non habeam, videat Deus patrum nostrorum et iudicet".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Tunc ascendit Hazaël rex Syriæ, et pugnabat contra Geth, cepitque eam : et direxit faciem suam ut ascenderet in Jerusalem.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Egressusque est David obviam eis, et ait: Si pacifice venistis ad me ut auxiliemini mihi, cor meum jungatur vobis: si autem insidiamini mihi pro adversariis meis, cum ego iniquitatem in manibus non habeam, videat Deus patrum nostrorum, et judicet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to meet them: Heb. before them

If ye be come: 1 Samuel 16:4, 2 Samuel 3:20-25, 1 Kings 2:13, 2 Kings 9:22, Psalms 12:1, Psalms 12:2

heart: 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Kings 10:15, Psalms 86:11, 2 Corinthians 13:11, Philippians 1:27

knit: Heb. one, Jeremiah 32:39, Acts 4:32, 1 Corinthians 1:10

wrong: or, violence

God: Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:53, 1 Samuel 24:11-17, 1 Samuel 26:23, 1 Samuel 26:24, Psalms 7:6, 1 Peter 2:23

rebuke it: Zechariah 3:2, Jude 1:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:13 - Art thou for us 1 Samuel 20:8 - why shouldest 1 Chronicles 12:38 - all the rest Matthew 5:9 - are Matthew 12:30 - that is Acts 5:30 - God Acts 22:14 - The God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David went out to meet them,.... Out of the hold where he was; either out of respect and deference to them, some of them being persons of eminence; or it may be out of suspicion, fearing they were not his friends, being, it may be, chiefly of the tribe of Benjamin, and therefore was desirous of sounding them before he admitted them:

and said unto them, if ye be come peaceably unto me to help me; if they were come with a good will to him, and intention to help him against his enemy, and protect him:

mine heart shall be knit unto you; they should have such a share in his affections, that their hearts would be as one, as his and Jonathan's were, 1 Samuel 18:1,

but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies; into the hands of Saul, and his courtiers, that sought his life:

seeing there is no wrong in mine hands; no injury done by him to Saul, or to them, or to any other:

the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it; he that sees all things, let him revenge it; and it is not only a wish that he would, but a prayer of faith that so it would be.