◄ 2 Samuel 15:28 ►
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Good News Translation
Meanwhile, I will wait at the river crossings in the wilderness until I receive news from you."

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

2 Samuel 15:23 And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.

2 Samuel 16:2 And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba answered: The asses are for the king's household to sit on: and the loaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if any man be faint in the desert.

2 Samuel 17:1,16 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .

Context
David Flees Jerusalem
…27And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the city in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be with you. 28Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till there come word from you to certify me.29So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem: and they tarried there.…
Cross References
Joshua 5:10
And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho:

2 Samuel 15:23
And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.

2 Samuel 15:29
So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.

2 Samuel 15:27
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