◄ 2 Samuel 19:7 ►
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Good News Translation
Now go and reassure your men. I swear by the LORD's name that if you don't, not one of them will be with you by tomorrow morning. That would be the worst disaster you have suffered in all your life."

New Revised Standard Version
So go out at once and speak kindly to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night; and this will be worse for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

Contemporary English Version
Now get up! Go out there and thank them for what they did. If you don't, I swear by the LORD that you won't even have one man left on your side tomorrow morning. You may have had a lot of troubles in the past, but this will be the worst thing that has ever happened to you!

New American Bible
Now then, get up! Go out and speak kindly to your servants. I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a single man will remain with you overnight, and this will be a far greater disaster for you than any that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth until now.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth until now.

Genesis 34:3 And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Isaiah 40:1 Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.

Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

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Proverbs 14:28 In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of the people the dishonour of the prince.

all the evil

Psalm 71:4-6,9-11,18-20 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust. . . .

Psalm 129:1,2 A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say. . . .

Context
Joab Reproves David
…6Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles, nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee. 7Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth until now.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:6
Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles, nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.

Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of the people the dishonour of the prince.

2 Samuel 19:6
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