2 Samuel 16:22 - Tree of Life Version

²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house: and he went in to his father's concubines before all Israel.

2 Samuel 16:22 Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.

2 Samuel 11:2

One evening David rose from his bed and strolled on the roof of the royal palace. Then from the roof he saw a woman washing—a very beautiful woman.

2 Samuel 15:16

So the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But the king left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.

2 Samuel 20:3

Now when David arrived at his palace in Jerusalem, the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to take care of the palace, and put them in a guarded house. He provided for them but he did not cohabit with them. So they were confined until the day they died, living in widowhood.

Isaiah 3:9

The expression of their faces bears witness against them. They display their sin like Sodom— they do not hide it. Oy , their souls! For they brought evil on themselves.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore showers have been withheld and there has been no spring rain. You have a harlot’s brazen look; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed of the abomination they committed? No, not ashamed, not at all— they do not know how to blush! So they will fall among the fallen. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her bloodshed is in her midst. She put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.

Numbers 25:6

Then behold, a man from Bnei-Yisrael came and brought a Midianite woman to his brothers before the eyes of Moses and of the whole assembly of Bnei-Yisrael, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting!

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction—their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame. They set their minds on earthly things.)