2 Samuel 17:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ I will bring back all the people to you. [The removal of] the man whom you seek is the assurance that all will return; and all the people will be at peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

Common English Bible

³ and I will bring all the people back to you like a bride comes back to her husband. It’s only one man’s life you are seeking; everyone else can be at peace.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And I will lead back the entire people, returning in the manner of one man. For you are seeking only one man. And all the people shall be in peace."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man; for thou seekest but one man. And all the people shall be in peace.

2 Samuel 17:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:4

Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he list: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed Absalom.

2 Samuel 3:21

6 Then Joab going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and brought him back from the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.

Isaiah 48:22

Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:

Isaiah 57:21

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, end the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up.

Jeremiah 6:14

2 Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

2 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you: