| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 2Sa 19:7 | Strong Concordance | Now therefore arise [06965], go forth [03318], and speak [01696] comfortably [03820] unto thy servants [05650]: for I swear [07650] by the LORD [03068], if thou go not forth [03318], there will not tarry [03885] one [0376] with thee this night [03915]: and that will be worse [07489] unto thee than all the evil [07451] that befell [0935] thee from thy youth [05271] until now. |
| King James | 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. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Now . . . arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants--The king felt the truth of Joab's reprimand; but the threat by which it was enforced, grounded as it was on the general's unbounded popularity with the army, showed him to be a dangerous person; and that circumstance, together with the violation of an express order to deal gently for his sake with Absalom, produced in David's mind a settled hatred, which was strongly manifested in his last directions to Solomon. |