2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:22 in other translations
| BSB | So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. |
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| WEB | So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. |
| ASV | So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. |
| YLT | And they spread out for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom goeth in unto the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel. |
| DARBY | So they spread a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. |
| BBE | So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel. |
| Webster | So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. |
What does 2 Samuel 16:22 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 16:15-23
The wisest counsellors of that age were Ahithophel and Hushai: Absalom thinks himself sure of success, when he has both; on them he relies, and consults not the ark, though he had that with him. But miserable counsellors were they both. Hushai would never counsel him to do wisely. Ahithophel counselled him to do wickedly; and so did as effectually betray him, as he did, who was designedly false to him: for they that…
2 Samuel 16:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 16:22
- 2 Samuel 15:16
And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
- 2 Samuel 12:11-12
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
- 2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
- Numbers 25:6
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
- Isaiah 3:9
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
- 2 Samuel 11:2
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
- Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
- Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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Context
- 2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
- 2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- 2 Samuel 16:23
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel 16:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces pusieron una tienda á Absalom sobre el terrado, y entró Absalom á las concubinas de su padre, en ojos de todo Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et on tendit une tente pour Absalom sur le toit; et Absalom entra vers les concubines de son père, aux yeux de tout Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da schlug man für Absalom ein Zelt auf dem Dache auf; und Absalom ging ein zu den Kebsweibern seines Vaters vor den Augen von ganz Israel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tetenderunt ergo Absalom tabernaculum in solario, ingressusque est ad concubinas patris sui coram universo Israël. |