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Absalom’s Revenge on Amnon

2 Samuel 13:33

In 11 translations

BSB
So now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”
KJV
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
WEB
Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.”
ASV
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
LSV
and now, do not let my lord the king lay the word to his heart, saying, All the sons of the king have died, for Amnon alone [is] dead.”
YLT
and now, let not my lord the king lay unto his heart the word, saying, All the sons of the king have died, for Amnon alone [is] dead.'
DBY
And now let not my lord the king take the thing to heart, to say, All the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
DRC
Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his heart, saying: All the king’s sons are slain: for Amnon only is dead.
GNV
Nowe therefore let not my lord the King take the thing so grieuously, to thinke that all ye Kings sonnes are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
JPS
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.'
LXXE
And now let not my lord the king take the matter to heart, saying, All the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only of them all is dead.

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  • Written (Ketiv): אִם־ (“except”). Read aloud (Qere): (“[ ]”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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  • Leningrad Codex reads אִם־; read aloud (Qere) reads (“[ ]”).

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעַתָּ֡ה אַל־יָשֵׂם֩ אֲדֹנִ֨י הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ אֶל־לִבּוֹ֙ דָּבָ֣ר לֵאמֹ֔ר כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מֵ֑תוּ כִּֽי־אִם־אַמְנ֥וֹן לְבַדּ֖וֹ מֵֽת׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ νῦν μὴ θέσθω ὁ κύριός μου ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ ῥῆμα, λέγων, πάντες οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ βασιλέως ἀπέθανον· ὅτι ἀλλʼ ἢ Ἀμνὼν μονώτατος ἀπέθανε.

Who and where

👤 Amnon◆ Reign of David

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Samuel 19:19and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

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