He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.
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He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.
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And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
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And he said unto them: 'Come again unto me after three days.' And the people departed.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 10:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 12:5 He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” So the people departed.
- Proverbs 3:28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Come again unto me after three days.—Hob., Yet…
(5) Come again unto me after three days.—Hob., Yet three days and return unto me. The verb go ye (Kings) seems to have fallen out before the first words. The LXX., Syriac, and Arabic have it.
Departed.—Singular; Kings, plural. Contrast 2Ch_10:1.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This first reply of Rehoboam was not necessarily inauspicious.…
This first reply of Rehoboam was not necessarily inauspicious. Yet sometimes, as it proved now, the caution that takes time to consider heralds fatal mistake. This is when either a generous, instinctive impulse, asking an instantaneous obedience, is chilled by some self-regard; or yet worse, when the offended Spirit is restrained, and no inner guiding voice is heard, as Saul found, to his ruin.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.