Parallel Verses
Amplified
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof [of the king’s palace], and
New American Standard Bible
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof,
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
International Standard Version
So they erected a tent for Absalom on the palace roof and Absalom went in and had sex with his father's mistresses right in front of all Israel.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will stretch out a tent for Absalom upon the roof, and Absalom will go in to his father's concubines before the eyes of all Israel.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he went [in] to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.
Modern King James verseion
And 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And so they pitched Absalom a tent upon the top of the house. And he went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
NET Bible
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom had sex with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
New Heart English 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.
The Emphasized Bible
And they stretched out for Absolom a tent, upon the house-top, - and Absolom went in unto his father's concubines, in the sight of all Israel.
Webster
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.
World English 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 16:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ahithophel's Advice
21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:11-12
Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will stir up evil against you from your
2 Samuel 15:16
So the king left, and all his household
2 Samuel 20:3
Then David came to his house (palace) at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, his
Numbers 25:6
Then one of the Israelites came and presented to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping [over God’s judgment] at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).
2 Samuel 11:2
One evening David got up from his couch and was walking on the [flat]
Isaiah 3:9
Their partiality testifies against them,
They display their sin like Sodom;
They do not even hide it.
Woe (judgment is coming) to
For they have brought evil on themselves [as a reward].
Jeremiah 3:3
“Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute;
You refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 8:12
“Were they ashamed because of the extremely disgusting and shamefully vile things they had done?
They were not at all ashamed,
And they did not know how to blush.
Therefore, they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time of their punishment they shall be overthrown,”
Says the Lord.
Ezekiel 24:7
“For her blood [that she has shed] remains in her midst;
She put it on the bare rock;
She did not pour it on the ground
To cover it with dust.
Philippians 3:19
whose fate is destruction, whose god is their belly [their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity], and whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things.