2 Kings 15:37
Then Chusai the friend of David went into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Veniente ergo Chusai amico David in civitatem, Absalom quoque ingressus est Jerusalem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Χουσεὶ ὁ ἑταῖρος Δαυεὶδ εἰς τὴν πόλιν, καὶ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ εἰσεπορεύετο εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֥א חוּשַׁ֛י רֵעֶ֥ה דָוִ֖ד הָעִ֑יר וְאַבְשָׁלֹ֔ם יָבֹ֖א יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm VII
1. Now the story which gave occasion to this prophecy may be easily recognised in the second book of Kings. For there Chusi, the friend of king David, went over to the side of Abessalon, his son, who was carrying on war against his father, for the purpose of discovering and reporting the designs which he was taking against his father, at the instigation of Achitophel, who had revolted from David’s friendship, and was instructing by his counsel, to the best of his power, the son against the father. But since it is not the story itself which is to be the subject of consideration in this Psalm, from which the prophet hath taken a veil of mysteries, if we have passed over to Christ, let the veil be taken away. And first let us inquire into the signification of the very names, what it means. …