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2 Samuel 19:7
2 Samuel 19:7 is verse 7 of 2 Samuel chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
King James Version
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
World English Bible
Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”
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2 Samuel 19:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.
6 You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
7 Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
8 So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.
9 And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
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Cross-references
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Isaiah 40:1“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
Hosea 2:14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
Proverbs 14:28A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
Psalms 71:4Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.
Psalms 71:5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
Psalms 71:9Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
Psalms 71:10For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,
Psalms 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
Psalms 71:19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
Psalms 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
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Psalms 129:2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.