2 Samuel 17:16

17:16 Now send word quickly to David and warn him, “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.”

2 Samuel 19:7

19:7 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!”


tn Heb “send quickly and tell David saying.”

tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV).

tn That is, “cross over the Jordan River.”

tn Heb “swallowed up.”

tn Heb “and speak to the heart of.”