◄ 2 Samuel 18:31 ►
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Good News Translation
Then the Ethiopian slave arrived and said to the king, "I have good news for Your Majesty! Today the LORD has given you victory over all who rebelled against you!"

New Revised Standard Version
Then the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, “Good tidings for my lord the king! For the LORD has vindicated you this day, delivering you from the power of all who rose up against you.”

Contemporary English Version
The Ethiopian came and said, "Your Majesty, today I have good news! The LORD has rescued you from all your enemies!"

New American Bible
When the Cushite came in, he said, “Let my lord the king receive the good news that this day the LORD has freed you from the power of all who rose up against you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and coming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen up against thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and coming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen up against thee.

Tidings [heb] Tidings is brought

2 Samuel 18:19,28 And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the king, that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his enemies. . . .

2 Samuel 22:48,49 God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me, . . .

Deuteronomy 32:35,36 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come. . . .

Psalm 58:10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

Psalm 94:1-4 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely. . . .

Psalm 124:2,3 If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us, . . .

Luke 18:7,8 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard? . . .

Context
David Mourns for Absalom
…30And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here. 31And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and coming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen up against thee.32And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.…
Cross References
Judges 5:31
So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. [32] And the land rested for forty years.

2 Samuel 18:19
And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the king, that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his enemies.

2 Samuel 18:30
And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.

Daniel 4:19
It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto the ends of the earth.

2 Samuel 18:30
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