2 Samuel 20:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ Joab asked Amasa, ‘Are you well, my brother? ’ Then with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Joab said to Amasa, Are you well, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand [as if] to kiss him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

Common English Bible

⁹ “How are you, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa, and with his right hand he took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to kiss him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Then Joab said to Amasa, "Be well, my brother." And he held Amasa by the chin with his right hand, as if to kiss him.

2 Samuel 20:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:5

When a person approached to pay homage to him, Absalom reached out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.

2 Samuel 17:25

Now Absalom had appointed Amasa  over the army in Joab’s place. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra  the Israelite;  , Ithra had married Abigail daughter of Nahash.  Abigail was a sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 18:29

The king asked, ‘Is the young man Absalom all right? ’ Ahimaaz replied, ‘When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a big disturbance, but I don’t know what it was.’

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel,  Joab’s brother.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner  son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa  son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Proverbs 26:23

Smooth  lips with an evil heart are like glaze on an earthen vessel.

Proverbs 27:6

The wounds of a friend are trustworthy, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

Jeremiah 41:2

but then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword; he killed the one the king of Babylon had appointed in the land.

Micah 7:2

Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.

Judges 3:15

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed  Benjaminite,  as a deliverer for them. The Israelites sent him with the tribute  for King Eglon of Moab.