2 Samuel 19:7

New English Translation

So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to your servants. For I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.

2 Samuel 19:6

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.

Proverbs 14:28

A king’s glory is the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects is the ruin of a ruler.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

Isaiah 40:1

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Hosea 2:14

However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.