2 Samuel 17:16 - Tree of Life Version

Now therefore send word quickly and tell David saying, ‘Don’t spend the night at the fords in the wilderness but by all means, cross over or else the king and all the people with him may be swallowed up.’”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now send quickly and tell David, Lodge not this night at the fords [at the Jordan] of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up and all the people with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Common English Bible

Now send word immediately to David and tell him, ‘Don’t spend the night in the desert plains. You must cross over immediately. Otherwise, the king and all the troops who are with him will be swallowed up whole.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now therefore, send quickly, and report to David, saying: 'You shall not stay this night in the plains of the desert. Instead, without delay, go across. Otherwise the king may be engulfed, and all the people who are with him.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.

2 Samuel 17:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:14

Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Leave in haste or else he will overtake us quickly and bring disaster down on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

2 Samuel 15:28

See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”

2 Samuel 15:35

Won’t you have with you Zadok and Abiathar the kohanim there? So whatever you hear from the royal palace, you should report it to Zadok and Abiathar the kohanim.

Psalm 35:25

Don’t let them say in their heart: “Aha! Just what we wanted!” Don’t let them say: “We swallowed him up!”

Psalm 55:8

Surely I would flee far away. I would stay in the wilderness. Selah

Psalm 56:2

Be gracious to me, O God! For man has crushed me, fighting all day he oppresses me.

Psalm 57:3

I will cry out to El Elyon, to God who accomplishes it for me.

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible will have put on incorruptibility and this mortal will have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we groan while we are in this tent—burdened because we don’t want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

1 Samuel 20:38

Then Jonathan called out after the lad, “Quick, hurry! Don’t stand there!” So Jonathan’s lad picked up the arrow and came to his master.