KJV King James Version
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
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2 Samuel 15:27
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The 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.
WEB World English Bible
The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
ASV American Standard Version
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art thou not a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the king saith unto Zadok the priest, ‘Art thou a seer? turn back to the city in peace, and Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan son of Abiathar, your two sons with you;
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 15
24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me [both] it, and his habitation:
26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
30 And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
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וַיֹּ֤אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙H4428 · me.lekhkingאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)צָד֣וֹקH6659 · tsa.doqZadokהַכֹּהֵ֔ןH3548 · ko.henpriestהֲרוֹאֶ֣הH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאַתָּ֔הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)שֻׁ֥בָהH7725 · shuvto return: returnהָעִ֖ירH5892 · irexcitementבְּשָׁל֑וֹםH7965 · sha.lompeaceוַאֲחִימַ֨עַץH290 · a.chi.ma.atsAhimaazבִּנְךָ֜H1121 · benson: childוִיהוֹנָתָ֧ןH3083 · ye.ho.na.tanJonathanבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childאֶבְיָתָ֛רH54 · ev.ya.tarAbiatharשְׁנֵ֥יH8147 · she.na.yimtwoבְנֵיכֶ֖םH1121 · benson: childאִתְּכֶֽם׃H854 · etwith
Cross-references
1 Samuel 9:9(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)2 Samuel 17:17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.2 Samuel 15:34But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father’s servant hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.2 Samuel 24:11For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,2 Samuel 15:36Behold, [they have] there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s [son], and Jonathan Abiathar’s [son]; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.1 Chronicles 25:5All these [were] the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
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