2 Samuel 19:7

Now therefore get up and go out and speak kindly to your soldiers, for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go, not one man will remain with you tonight. That would be worse for you than all the disasters that have ever happened to you from your youth until now.”

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In The 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.

In Context

6because you love those who hate you, and you hate those who love you. For today you have shown that commanders and soldiers are nothing to you. Today I believe that if Absalom had lived, and we all had died, then that would have pleased you.

8So the king got up and sat in the city gate, and all the people were told, “Look, the king is sitting in the gate,” and all the people came before the king. So Israel fled, every man to his home.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:3He was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

Psalms 71:9Do not throw me away in my time of old age; 1 do not abandon me when my strength fails. 1

Psalms 129:1“Often since my youth they have attacked me,” 1 let Israel say. 1

Proverbs 19:15Laziness throws a person into a deep sleep, 1 but the one not willing to work will go hungry. 1

Hosea 2:14So I am going to win her back. I will bring her into the wilderness 1 and speak tenderly to her. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 19:2-9

Joab's Reproof of David. ( b. c. 1023.) 1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. 2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son. 3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. 4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! 5 And Joab came into… Read the whole commentary →

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