2 Samuel 16:21 - The Scriptures 1998

And Aḥ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be made strong.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, that he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then will the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

Common English Bible

“Have sex with your father’s secondary wives—the ones he left to take care of the palace,” Ahithophel told Absalom. “Then all Israel will hear that you have alienated yourself from your father, and everyone who supports you will be encouraged.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Ahithophel said to Absalom: "Enter to the concubines of your father, whom he left behind in order to care for the house. Thus, when all of Israel will hear that you disgraced your father, their hands may be strengthened with you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy father, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall hear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be strengthened with thee.

2 Samuel 16:21 Cross References

Genesis 34:30

And Yaʽ

Genesis 35:22

And it came to be, when Yisra’ĕ

Genesis 38:16

And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What do you give me to come in to me?”

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men of name.

2 Samuel 10:6

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had become a stench to Dawiḏ

2 Samuel 12:11

“Thus said יהוה, ‘See, I am raising up evil against you, from your own house, and shall take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbour, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

2 Samuel 13:5

And Yonaḏ

2 Samuel 15:16

And the sovereign went out, and all his household at his feet. But the sovereign left ten women, concubines, to look after the house.

2 Samuel 16:20

And Aḇ

2 Samuel 17:7

And Ḥ

2 Samuel 2:7

“And now, let your hands be strengthened and be brave, for your master Sha’ul is dead, and also the house of Yehuḏ

2 Samuel 20:3

And Dawiḏ

1 Kings 11:25

And he was an adversary of Yisra’ĕ

1 Kings 2:17

And he said, “Please speak to Sovereign Shelomoh – for he would not refuse you – to give me Aḇ

1 Kings 2:22

And Sovereign Shelomoh answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Aḇ

Leviticus 18:8

‘The nakedness of your father’s wife you do not uncover, it is your father’s nakedness.

Leviticus 20:11

‘And a man who lies with the wife of his father has uncovered the nakedness of his father, both of them shall certainly be put to death, their blood is upon them.

Zechariah 8:13

‘And it shall be, as you were a curse among the gentiles, O house of Yehuḏ

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!

1 Samuel 13:4

And all Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 27:12

And Aḵ