2 Samuel 16:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 35:22

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

2 Samuel 11:2

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing #– #a very beautiful woman.

2 Samuel 15:16

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

2 Samuel 20:3

When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard.  He provided for them, but he was not intimate with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom,  they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster on themselves.

Jeremiah 3:3

This is why the showers haven’t come   – why there has been no spring rain. You have the brazen look  of a prostitute and refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse,’ says the Lord.

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she shed  is still within her. She put it out on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

Numbers 25:6

An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory  is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.