2 Samuel 13:24 - Tree of Life Version

²⁴ Then Absalom came to the king and said, “See now, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants come with your servant.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Absalom came to the king and said, Behold, your servant has sheepshearers; I pray you, let the king and his servants go with your servant.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray thee, and his servants go with thy servant.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Absalom approached the king and said, “Your servant is shearing sheep. Would the king and his advisors please join me?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And he went to the king, and he said to him: "Behold, the sheep of your servant are being shorn. I ask that the king, with his servants, may come to his servant."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant's sheep are shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his servants come to his servant.

2 Samuel 13:24 Cross References

Genesis 38:12

Now the days became many, and Shua’s daughter, Judah’s wife, died. After Judah consoled himself, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

2 Samuel 13:23

It came about, after two full years, that Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

2 Samuel 13:25

But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son. Let’s not all go—we don’t want to be burdensome to you.” Though he urged him, he would not go, though he blessed him.

Psalm 12:2

Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Psalm 55:21

My companion put forth his hands against those at peace with him, as he violates his covenant.

1 Samuel 25:7

Now I hear that you have shearers. When your shepherds were with us, we did them no harm and nothing of theirs was missing all the time they were in Carmel.