2 Samuel 15:20 “In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around w…”

2 Samuel 15:20

In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness. ”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.

World English Bible

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

American Standard Version

Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou camest yesterday, and should I cause thee to wander to day and go with vs? I will goe whither I can: therefore returne thou and cary againe thy brethren: mercy and trueth be with thee.

Darby Translation

Thou didst come yesterday, and should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I can? Return and take back thy brethren. Mercy and truth be with thee!

Young's Literal Translation

Yesterday [is] thy coming in, and to-day I move thee to go with us, and I am going on that which I am going! — turn back, and take back thy brethren with thee, — kindness and truth.'

Bible in Basic English

It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

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Cross references

“go up and down”

Psalm 56:8 Psalm 59:15 Amos 8:12 Hebrews 11:37 Hebrews 11:38

Psalm 56:8 · BSB

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

Psalm 59:15 · BSB

They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Amos 8:12 · BSB

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

Hebrews 11:37 · BSB

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

Hebrews 11:38 · BSB

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

“seeing”

1 Samuel 23:13

1 Samuel 23:13 · BSB

Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.

“mercy”

2 Samuel 2:6 John 1:17 Psalm 25:10 Psalm 57:3 Psalm 61:7 Psalm 85:10

2 Samuel 2:6 · BSB

Now may the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness, and I will also show you the same favor because you have done this.

John 1:17 · BSB

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Psalm 25:10 · BSB

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

Psalm 57:3 · BSB

He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

Psalm 61:7 · BSB

May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.

Psalm 85:10 · BSB

Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

21But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”

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