2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
KJV
Dixit ergo Achitophel ad Absalom : Eligam mihi duodecim millia virorum, et consurgens persequar David hac nocte.
Vulgate
Καὶ εἶπεν Ἀχειτόφελ πρὸς Ἀβεσσαλώμ Ἐπιλέξω δὴ ἐμαυτῷ δώδεκα χιλιάδας ἀνδρῶν, καὶ ἀναστήσομαι καὶ καταδιώξω ὀπίσω Δαυεὶδ τὴν νύκτα.
LXX
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל אֶל אַבְשָׁלֹ֑ם אֶבְחֲרָ֣ה נָּ֗א שְׁנֵים עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֨לֶף֙ אִ֔ישׁ וְ/אָק֛וּמָה וְ/אֶרְדְּפָ֥ה אַחֲרֵי דָוִ֖ד הַ/לָּֽיְלָה
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Covers David's reign: his lament over Saul and Jonathan, the capture of Jerusalem, the bringing of the Ark, the Davidic covenant, the sin with Bathsheba, Absalom's rebellion, and David's final years. Josephus treats David as both a military genius and a flawed ruler.
Cross-references
- Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Matt 10:21 — And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Prov 1:16 — For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- Prov 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Ps 3:3 — But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
- Ps 4:8 — I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
- Ps 31:13 — For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Ps 38:12 — They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Ps 71:4 — Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
- Ps 109:2 — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Ps 109:2 — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Ps 118:13 — Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.