2 Samuel 17:1

2 Samuel chapter 17 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

Context

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v.2and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 59:7

    Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Psalms 3:3

    But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; My glory, and the lifter up of my head.

  • Proverbs 1:16

    For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

  • Psalms 4:8

    In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

  • Proverbs 4:16

    For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Psalms 109:2

    For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.