2 Samuel 16:22 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² So they spread for Absalom a tent on the top of the [king's] house, and Absalom went in to his father's harem in the sight of all Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² 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.

Common English Bible

²² So they set up a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he had sex with his father’s secondary wives in plain sight before all Israel. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Therefore, they spread a tent for Absalom on the rooftop. And he entered to the concubines of his father in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 16:22 Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 15:16

So the king left, followed by all his household, except ten concubines whom he left behind to look after the house.

2 Samuel 20:3

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore, you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 8:12

They acted shamefully, they committed abomination; yet they were not at all ashamed, they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.

Numbers 25:6

Just then one of the Israelites came and brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.