2 Samuel 13:23
And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
KJV
Factum est autem post tempus biennii ut tonderentur oves Absalom in Baalhasor, quæ est juxta Ephraim : et vocavit Absalom omnes filios regis,
Vulgate
Καὶ ἐγένετο εἰς διετηρίδα ἡμερῶν καὶ ἦσαν κείροντες τῷ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἐν Βαιλασὼρ τῇ ἐχόμενα Ἐφράιμ, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἀβεσσαλὼμ πάντας τοὺς υἱοὺς τοῦ βασιλέως.
LXX
And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
ASV
וַֽ/יְהִי֙ לִ/שְׁנָתַ֣יִם יָמִ֔ים וַ/יִּהְי֤וּ גֹֽזְזִים֙ לְ/אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם בְּ/בַ֥עַל חָצ֖וֹר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִם אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַ/יִּקְרָ֥א אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם לְ/כָל בְּנֵ֥י הַ/מֶּֽלֶךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 25:2 — And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1Sam 25:4 — And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
- 1Sam 25:36 — And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or
- Gen 38:12 — And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
- Prov 10:18 — He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.