2 Samuel 20:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

1 In the mean time some men of Joab's company stopping at the dead body of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab's stead the companion of David.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba son of Bichri do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get for himself fenced cities and snatch away our very eyes.

American Standard Version (1901)

And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.

Common English Bible

David told Abishai, “Bichri’s son Sheba will cause more trouble for us than Absalom did. Take your master’s servants and chase after him before he finds fortified cities and escapes from us.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And David said to Abishai: "Now Sheba, the son of Bichri, will afflict us more so than Absalom did. Therefore, take the servants of your lord, and pursue him, otherwise he may find fortified cities, and escape from us."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us more harm than did Absalom. Take thou therefore the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us.

2 Samuel 20:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 10:14

9 And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and fifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.

2 Samuel 11:11

6 Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.

2 Samuel 18:12

7 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stories upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings.

2 Samuel 18:2

And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 19:7

2 You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?

2 Samuel 2:18

3 But he refused to hearken to him, and would not turn aside: wherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the groin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot: and all that came to the place where Asael fell down and died stood still.

2 Samuel 21:17

2 These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the hand of David, and of his servants.

2 Samuel 23:18

3 And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the most honourable among the thirty: but he attained riot to the first three: and David made him of his privy council.

2 Samuel 3:30

5 And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

2 Samuel 3:39

And the sons of Remmon the Berothite, Rechab and Baana coming, went into the house of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was sleeping upon his bed at noon. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was cleansing wheat, was fallen asleep.

1 Kings 1:33

8 So Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet went down, and Banaias the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set Solomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon.

1 Chronicles 11:20

5 And the first among the thirty, but yet to the three he attained not: and David made him of his council.

1 Chronicles 18:12

7 And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi: and the sons of David were chief about the king.

Jeremiah 8:14

2 Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

Mark 3:24

2 And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

1 Samuel 26:6

1 The Lord be merciful unto me, that I extend not my hand upon the Lord's anointed. But now take the spear, which is at his head, and the cup of water, and let us go.