2 Samuel 15:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁰ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Since you came only yesterday, should I make you go up and down with us? Since I must go where I may, you return, and take back your brethren with you. May loving-kindness and faithfulness be with you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You just got here yesterday. So today should I make you wander around with us while I go wherever I have to go? No. Go back, and take your relatives with you. May the LORD show you loyal love and faithfulness.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ You arrived yesterday. And today should you be compelled to go away with us? For I should go to the place where I am going. But you should return, and lead your own brothers back with you. And the Lord will show mercy and truth to you, because you have shown grace and faith."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Yesterday thou camest, and to-day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? But I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee. And the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.

2 Samuel 15:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:5

And David sent messengers unto the men of Ja´besh–gil´e-ad, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye have showed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.

2 Samuel 2:6

And now the Lord show kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 56:8

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Psalm 57:3

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Psalm 59:15

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Psalm 61:7

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

Psalm 61:8

So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Psalm 85:10

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psalm 89:14

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Proverbs 3:3

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Amos 8:12

and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

John 1:17

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

1 Samuel 23:13

Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Kei´lah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Kei´lah; and he forbare to go forth.