We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Parallel translations
- WEB We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
- BSB We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
- NKJV We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in the throng.
- NASB We who had sweet fellowship together, Walked in the house of God among the commotion.
- NLT What good fellowship we once enjoyed as we walked together to the house of God.
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Quick answer
They once shared sweet fellowship and worshiped God together. It deepens the grief by recalling former closeness.
Overview
David remembers intimate companionship and joint worship in God's house with the one who now betrays him. The memory of shared devotion makes the treachery more bitter. It reminds believers to value faithful fellowship and warns of the seriousness of betraying it.
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- Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- Ezek 33:31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
- Ps 122:1I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
- Isa 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
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