2 Samuel 15:28
New International Version
I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

New Living Translation
I will stop at the shallows of the Jordan River and wait there for a report from you.”

English Standard Version
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Berean Standard Bible
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

King James Bible
See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

New King James Version
See, I will wait in the plains of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

New American Standard Bible
See, I am going to wait at the river crossing places of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

NASB 1995
“See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

NASB 1977
“See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Legacy Standard Bible
See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Amplified Bible
See, I am going to wait at the fords [of the Jordan] in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Christian Standard Bible
Remember, I’ll wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Remember, I’ll wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

American Standard Version
See, I will tarry at the fords of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
See, now, I will wait in the plain of the wilderness until a man comes from your presence and shows me”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, I continue in arms in Araboth of the desert, until there come tidings from you to report to me.

Contemporary English Version
I'll wait at the river crossing in the desert until I hear from you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till there come word from you to certify me.

English Revised Version
See, I will tarry at the fords of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I'll wait at the river crossings in the desert until I receive a message from you."

Good News Translation
Meanwhile, I will wait at the river crossings in the wilderness until I receive news from you."

International Standard Version
Look! I'll camp at the wilderness fords until you send word to inform me."

JPS Tanakh 1917
See, I will tarry in the plains of the wilderness, until there come word from you to announce unto me.'

Literal Standard Version
see, I am lingering in the plains of the wilderness until the coming in of a word from you to declare to me.”

Majority Standard Bible
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

New American Bible
Remember, I shall be waiting at the fords near the wilderness until a report from you comes to me.”

NET Bible
Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you reaches me."

New Revised Standard Version
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

New Heart English Bible
Look, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me."

Webster's Bible Translation
See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until word shall come from you to certify me.

World English Bible
Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Young's Literal Translation
see ye, I am tarrying in the plains of the wilderness till the coming in of a word from you to declare to me.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
David Flees Jerusalem
27The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Return to the city in peace—you with your son Ahimaaz, and Abiathar with his son Jonathan. 28See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.” 29So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.…

Cross References
Joshua 5:10
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

2 Samuel 15:23
Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

2 Samuel 15:29
So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

2 Samuel 17:16
Now send quickly and tell David, 'Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.'"


Treasury of Scripture

See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

2 Samuel 15:23
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

2 Samuel 16:2
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

2 Samuel 17:1,16
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: …

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2 Samuel 15
1. Absalom, by fair speeches and courtesies, steals the hearts of Israel.
7. By pretense of a vow, he obtains leave to go to Hebron
10. He makes there a great conspiracy
13. David upon the news flees from Jerusalem
19. Ittai will leave him
24. Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the ark
30. David and his company go up mount Olivet weeping,
31. He curses Ahithophel's counsel
32. Hushai is sent back with instructions














(28) The plain of the wilderness.--This is the reading of the Hebrew margin here and at 2Samuel 17:16, and is followed by the ancient versions. It is used for the wide valley of the Jordan in which Jericho is situated; but in both places the Hebrew text is better, the fords, both as a more definite place where messengers would find David, and also as a place of strategic importance where a retreat across the Jordan was open at any moment.

Verse 28. - In the plain of the wilderness. The Revised Version has "at the fords of the wilderness," that is, it rightly keeps to the written Hebrew text (the K'tib), while the Authorized Version adopts a conjecture of the Massorites (the K'ri). This conjecture is the substitution of arboth for abroth, and they have made the same alteration at 2 Samuel 17:16. But the substitution is uncalled for and mischievous; for David would not halt indefinitely in the plain, the Arabah (of which Arboth is the plural), but would press on to the fords, where some delay must take place, and where the king's presence would be important in giving instructions for what was by no means an easy operation (comp. 2 Samuel 19:18). At the river, moreover, David could be assailed only in front, where his "mighties" would make a strong defence, while in the Arabah they might be surrounded; and, encumbered as they were with women, their line must be so extended as to be weakened. We find, too, in Judges 3:28 that the fords of the Jordan formed a good military position. In 2 Samuel 17:22 it is expressly said that the fording of the river did not take place until Jonathan and Ahimaaz came with their reports; and their words there, in ver, 21, show that David was on the bank when they arrived, with his preparations so complete, that, in the next few hours, all his company were safely carried over to the other side. Ahimaaz was a famous runner (see 2 Samuel 18:27), and, if David was ready, the time gained by him upon any body of troops leaving Jerusalem at the same hour, would have enabled the king to get his people across; but if he had still some miles to march, with a number of women and children, Ahimaaz's fleetness would have been rendered useless.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
See,
רְאוּ֙ (rə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

I will
אָנֹכִ֣י (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

wait
מִתְמַהְמֵ֔הַּ (miṯ·mah·mê·ah)
Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 4102: To question, hesitate, to be reluctant

at the fords
בְּעַֽרְב֖וֹת (bə·‘ar·ḇō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5679: A crossing-place

of the wilderness
הַמִּדְבָּ֑ר (ham·miḏ·bār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

until
עַ֣ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

word
דָבָ֛ר (ḏā·ḇār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

comes
בּ֥וֹא (bō·w)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

from you
מֵעִמָּכֶ֖ם (mê·‘im·mā·ḵem)
Preposition-m | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

to inform
לְהַגִּ֥יד (lə·hag·gîḏ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

me.”
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


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