2 Samuel 1:5 - Easy To Read Version

David said to the young soldier, “How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

David said to the young man, How do you know Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

American Standard Version (1901)

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

Common English Bible

“How do you know,” David asked the young man who brought the news, “that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And David said to the youth who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan have died?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?

2 Samuel 1:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:4

David said to the man, “Please tell me, who won the battle?”

2 Samuel 1:6

The young soldier said, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa. I saw Saul leaning on his spear. The Philistine chariots and horse soldiers were coming closer and closer to Saul.

Proverbs 14:15

A fool will believe anything he hears. But a wise man thinks carefully about everything.

Proverbs 25:2

God has the right to hide things that he does not want us to know about. But a king is honored for the things he says.