2-Samuel - 15:28



28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Samuel 15:28.

Differing Translations

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See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
See, I will tarry at the fords of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till there come word from you to certify me.
See, I will stop in the plains of the desert, until there come word from you to inform me.
see ye, I am tarrying in the plains of the wilderness till the coming in of a word from you to declare to me.'
See, I will be waiting at the way across the river, in the waste land, till I get news from you.
See, I will tarry in the plains of the wilderness, until there come word from you to announce unto me.'
Look, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.'
Behold, I will hide in the plains of the desert, until word from you may arrive to inform me."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness,.... Towards the way of which David and the people went when they came over Kidron, 2-Samuel 15:23,
until there come word from you to certify me; of the truth of the conspiracy, of the number of the conspirators, and who they are, what progress they have made, whether come to Jerusalem, and how they behave there, if come; or of anything relative hereunto he could get intelligence of.

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