“However, as a woman treacherously leaves her lover, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, House of Israel,” declares the Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.
- KJV Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
- BSB But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
- NKJV Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, So have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” says the Lord.
- NLT But you have been unfaithful to me, you people of Israel! You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
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Quick answer
Abner comes to David at Hebron with twenty men, and David honors them with a feast. The shared meal signals goodwill and the near-completion of the alliance.
Overview
Abner arrives with a delegation, and David receives them hospitably with a banquet, an act expressing peace and covenant fellowship. The feast marks the warming relations between the houses of Saul and David. This gracious reception underscores David's genuine desire for reconciliation rather than revenge.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
- Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
- Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
- Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
- Jer 3:1–2“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
- Ezek 16:15–52“‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.
- Hos 5:7They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
- Jer 3:8–10I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
- Hos 3:1Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
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