2 Samuel 19:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 3 And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And all [his followers] were told, The king is sitting in the gate, and they all came before the king. Now Israel [Absalom's troops] had fled, every man to his home.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Common English Bible

⁸ So the king went and sat down in the city gate. All the troops were told that the king was sitting in the gate, so they came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Therefore, the king rose up, and he sat at the gate. And it was announced to all the people that the king was sitting at the gate. And the entire multitude went before the king. But Israel fled to their own tents.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate. And all the people came before the king but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

2 Samuel 19:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and pay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron.

2 Samuel 18:17

2 Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings.

2 Samuel 18:24

9 And the king said: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Achimaas said: I saw a great tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me thy servant: I know nothing else.

2 Samuel 18:4

And it happened that Absalom met he servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and he earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.

2 Samuel 19:3

Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

1 Kings 22:36

1 But Josaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Juda in the fourth year of Achab king of Israel.

2 Kings 14:12

7 And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death of Joas son of Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2 Kings 8:21

6 Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.

1 Samuel 4:10

5 Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.