2 Samuel 19:28 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁸ “For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ For all of my father's house were but doomed to death before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I to cry any more to the king?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more unto the king?

Common English Bible

²⁸ Even though all the members of my grandfather’s family were nothing short of demonic toward my master and king, you still put your servant with those who eat at your table. So what right do I have to beg for still more from the king?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ For my father's house was deserving of nothing but death before my lord the king. Yet you have placed me, your servant, among the guests of your table. Therefore, what just complaint might I have? Or what else can I cry out to the king?"

2 Samuel 19:28 Cross References

Genesis 32:10

“I do not deserve the least of all the kind acts and all the truth which You have shown Your servant, for I passed over this Yardĕ

2 Samuel 14:17

“Then your female servant said, ‘Please let the word of my master the sovereign be comforting, for my master the sovereign is as the messenger of Elohim, in discerning the good and the evil. And יהוה  your Elohim is with you.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:20

“Your servant Yo’aḇ

2 Samuel 15:26

“But if He says thus, ‘I have not delighted in you,’ here I am, let Him do to me as seems good in His eyes.”

2 Samuel 16:3

And the sovereign said, “And where is the son of your master?” And Tsiḇ

2 Samuel 19:29

Then the sovereign said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I have said, ‘You and Tsiḇ

2 Samuel 9:10

“And you and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in its yield, and your master’s son shall have food to eat. But let Mephiḇ

2 Samuel 9:13

And Mephiḇ

2 Kings 8:3

And it came to be, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she went to cry out to the sovereign for her house and for her land.

1 Samuel 26:16

“What you have done is not good. As יהוה  lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not guarded your master, the anointed of יהוה. And now see where the sovereign’s spear is, and the jug of water that was by his head.”