2 Samuel 16:21

Good News Translation

Ahithophel answered, “Go and have intercourse with your father's concubines whom he left behind to take care of the palace. Then everyone in Israel will know that your father regards you as his enemy, and your followers will be greatly encouraged.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed.”

Genesis 35:22

While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.

Genesis 38:16

He went over to her at the side of the road and said, “All right, how much do you charge?” (He did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.) She said, “What will you give me?”

Genesis 6:4

In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

2 Samuel 10:6

The Ammonites realized that they had made David their enemy, so they hired twenty thousand Syrian soldiers from Bethrehob and Zobah, twelve thousand men from Tob, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men.

2 Samuel 12:11

I swear to you that I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble on you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man; and he will have intercourse with them in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 13:5

Jonadab said to him, “Pretend that you are sick and go to bed. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please ask my sister Tamar to come and feed me. I want her to fix the food here where I can see her, and then serve it to me herself.’”

2 Samuel 15:16

So the king left, accompanied by all his family and officials, except for ten concubines, whom he left behind to take care of the palace.

2 Samuel 16:20

Then Absalom turned to Ahithophel and said, “Now that we are here, what do you advise us to do?”

2 Samuel 17:7

Hushai answered, “The advice Ahithophel gave you this time is no good.

2 Samuel 2:7

Be strong and brave! Saul your king is dead, and the people of Judah have anointed me as their king.”

2 Samuel 20:3

When David arrived at his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and put them under guard. He provided for their needs, but did not have intercourse with them. They were kept confined for the rest of their lives, living like widows.

1 Kings 11:25

He was an enemy of Israel during the lifetime of Solomon.

1 Kings 2:17

He answered, “Please ask King Solomon—I know he won't refuse you—to let me have Abishag, the young woman from Shunem, as my wife.”

1 Kings 2:22

“Why do you ask me to give Abishag to him?” the king asked. “You might as well ask me to give him the throne too. After all, he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab are on his side!”

Leviticus 18:8

Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with any of his other wives.

Leviticus 20:11

A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father, and both he and the woman shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

Zechariah 8:13

People of Judah and Israel! In the past foreigners have cursed one another by saying, ‘May the same disasters fall on you that fell on Judah and Israel!’ But I will save you, and then those foreigners will say to one another, ‘May you receive the same blessings that came to Judah and Israel!’ So have courage and don't be afraid.”

1 Corinthians 5:1

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

1 Samuel 13:4

All the Israelites were told that Saul had killed the Philistine commander and that the Philistines hated them. So the people answered the call to join Saul at Gilgal.

1 Samuel 27:12

But Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He is hated so much by his own people the Israelites that he will have to serve me all his life.”