Absalom Killed
2 Samuel 18:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- If I had jeopardized my own life —and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”Or If I had dealt treacherously against his life
- KJV
- Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
- WEB
- Otherwise, if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
- ASV
- Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
- LSV
- or I had done a vain thing against my soul, and no matter is hid from the king, and you would station yourself opposite from [me].”
- YLT
- or I had done against my soul a vain thing, and no matter is hid from the king, and thou — thou dost station thyself over-against.'
- DBY
- Or I should have acted falsely against mine own life, for there is no matter concealed from the king, and thou wouldest have set thyself against [me].
- DRC
- Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?
- GNV
- If I had done it, it had bene the danger of my life: for nothing can be hid from the King: yea, thou thy selfe wouldest haue bin against me.
- JPS
- Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against mine own life — and there is no matter hid from the king — then thou thyself wouldest have stood aloof.'
- LXXE
- so as to do no harm to his life: and nothing of the matter will be concealed from the king, and thou wilt set thyself against me.
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- Written (Ketiv): בְנַפְשׁוֹ (“on life his”). Read aloud (Qere): בְנַפְשִׁי֙ (“on life my”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads בְנַפְשִׁו֙; read aloud (Qere) reads בְנַפְשִׁי֙ (“on life my”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֽוֹ־עָשִׂ֤יתִי בנפשו שֶׁ֔קֶר וְכָל־דָּבָ֖ר לֹא־יִכָּחֵ֣ד מִן־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְאַתָּ֖ה תִּתְיַצֵּ֥ב מִנֶּֽגֶד׃Read aloud as (qere): בְנַפְשִׁי֙
- LXX-Br
- μὴ ποιῆσαι ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ ἄδικον· καὶ πᾶς ὁ λόγος οὐ λήσεται ἀπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ σὺ στήσῃ ἐξεναντίας.
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- Hebrews 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
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