2 Samuel 19:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

2 Samuel 19:6

For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.

Proverbs 14:28

A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

Proverbs 19:15

Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

Isaiah 40:1

Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

Hosea 2:14

For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.