4 Regum 15:34

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Abiit autem Samuel in Ramatha : Saul vero ascendit in domum suam in Gabaa.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
si autem in civitatem revertaris, et dixeris Absalom: Servus tuus sum, rex: sicut fui servus patris tui, sic ero servus tuus: dissipabis consilium Achitophel.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Si autem in civitatem revertaris et dixeris Absalom: "Servus tuus ego, rex, ero; servus patris tui ego fui prius, nunc autem ego sum servus tuus", dissipabis mihi consilium Achitophel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

return: 2 Samuel 15:20, Joshua 8:2, Matthew 10:16

as I have been: 2 Samuel 16:16-19

then mayest: 2 Samuel 17:5-14

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:27 - return 2 Samuel 16:19 - should I not serve 2 Samuel 17:14 - to defeat 2 Samuel 17:20 - They be gone Job 5:13 - taketh Psalms 33:10 - The Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if thou return to the city,.... To the city of Jerusalem, from whence it seems he came:

and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as he was by usurpation, and by the proclamation of the people with him. David directs him to address him thus, that he might have no suspicion of him, having been an old friend of his:

[as] I [have been] thy father's servant hitherto; perhaps in the character of a counsellor, as it should seem, since as such he was afterwards employed by Absalom:

so [will] I now also [be] thy servant; in whatsoever thou shall please to employ me under thee:

then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel; for being taken into Absalom's service, and made one of his counsellors, he would be privy to the advice of Ahithophel, and so be able to work against him.