2 Samuel 15:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

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  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong. 22 So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.
  • Ps 3:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
  • Judg 4:10 : 10 Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.
  • 1 Sam 25:27 : 27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.
  • 1 Sam 25:42 : 42 Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.
  • 2 Sam 12:11 : 11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

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  • 2 Sam 15:17-18
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    81%

    17 And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.

    18 And all the people went on by his side; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the men of Ittai of Gath, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, went on before the king.

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
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    80%

    2 So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

    3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    78%

    15 And the king's servants said to the king, See, your servants are ready to do whatever the king says is to be done.

  • Esth 2:13-14
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    72%

    13 And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

    14 In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    71%

    17 Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her.

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    70%

    8 And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16-17
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    70%

    16 Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

    17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:3
    70%

    3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13 And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
    69%

    11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • 2 Kgs 24:14-15
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    69%

    14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

    15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Zech 12:14
    69%

    14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22
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    69%

    21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

    22 So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:28
    69%

    28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • Song 6:8
    68%

    8 There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.

  • Esth 2:2
    68%

    2 Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    68%

    9 But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    68%

    9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 1:15
    68%

    15 Then Bath-sheba went into the king's room; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was waiting on him.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    68%

    17 And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    68%

    15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • Judg 19:2
    68%

    2 And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

  • 2 Sam 14:13
    68%

    13 And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    68%

    15 All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4-5
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    68%

    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

    5 And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    67%

    17 And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,

  • 2 Sam 13:27
    67%

    27 But Absalom went on requesting him till he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. And Absalom made a great feast like a feast for a king.

  • Jer 29:2
    67%

    2 (After Jeconiah the king and the queen-mother and the unsexed servants and the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem and the expert workmen and the metal-workers had gone away from Jerusalem;)

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
    67%

    1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

  • Judg 19:10
    67%

    10 But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.

  • Esth 1:10
    67%

    10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    66%

    15 So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
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    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • 2 Chr 17:19
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    19 These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.

  • 1 Sam 30:9
    66%

    9 So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.

  • 2 Sam 14:24
    66%

    24 And the king said, Let him go to his house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom went back to his house and did not see the face of the king.

  • Judg 19:28
    66%

    28 And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    66%

    1 Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    66%

    7 So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.