2 Samuel 16:22
“So they spread Absalom a tent vpon the top of the house, and Absalom went in vnto his fathers concubines, in the sight of all Israel.”
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2 Samuel 16:22 Context
20¶ Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Giue counsell among you what we shall doe. 21And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom, Goe in vnto thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house, and all Israel shall heare that thou art abhorred of thy father, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong. 22So they spread Absalom a tent vpon the top of the house, and Absalom went in vnto his fathers concubines, in the sight of all Israel. 23And the counsell of Ahithophel which he counselled in those dayes, was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God: so was all the counsell of Ahithophel, both with Dauid and with Absalom.
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Other Translations for 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.
- King James Version
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
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.
- Darby Bible
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.
- Webster's Bible
So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- World English Bible
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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
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.--
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 2 Samuel 16:22
16:22 The top - Of the king's palace, the very place from whence David had gazed upon Bathsheba, chap.#11:2|, so that his sin was legible in the very place of his punishment. Went in - To one, or some of them. And by so doing did farther make claim to the kingdom; and, as it were, take possession of it. It being usual in the eastern countries to account the wives and concubines of the late king, to belong of right to the successor. Israel - Who saw him go into the tent; and thence concluded, that he lay with them, as he had designed to do. God had threatened by Nathan, that for his defiling Bathsheba, David's own wives should be defiled in the face of the sun. This is now fulfilled: the Lord is righteous; and no word of his shall fall to the ground.