Study it in the app“Now then, get up, go out, and speak to the heart of your servants; for by YHWH I swear that if you do not go out, not a man will spend the night with you tonight; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.””
Now then,וְעַתָּהget up,קוּםgo out,צֵאand speakוְדַבֵּרtoעַלthe heartלֵבof your servants;עֲבָדֶיךָforכִּיby YHWHבַיהוָהI swearנִשְׁבַּעְתִּיthatכִּיif you do notאֵינְךָgo out,יוֹצֵאnotאִםa manאִישׁwill spend the nightיָלִיןwith youאִתְּךָtonight;הַלַּיְלָהand thisוְ זֹאתwill be worseרָעָהfor youלְךָthan allמִכָּלthe evilהָרָעָהthatאֲשֶׁרhas comeבָּאָהupon youעָלֶיךָfrom your youthמִנְּעֻרֶיךָuntilעַדnow.”עָתָּה
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “tse” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “daber” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lev” appearsservant
Someone who works for another, or a king's official.
Where else “avade” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appearsswear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishbati” appearseach
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appearsspend the night
To stay in a place through the night, to sleep or to keep watch.
Where else “yalin” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsdisplease
To be unpleasant to someone.
Where else “raa” appearsharm
Something that hurts, a disaster.
Where else “raa” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baa” appearsyouth
Youth: the time of being young.
Where else “neure” appears6by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. For you have made known today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us dead today, then it would be right in your eyes.
7 · This verse (above)
8The king got up and sat in the gate. And to all the people they told, saying, “Look, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled, each to his tents.
