2 Samuel 2:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 1 And Abner said to him: Go to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take thee his spoils. But Asael would not leave off following him close.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his side; so they all fell together. Therefore that place was called the Field of Sharp Knives, which is at Gibeon.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Each man grabbed his opponent by the head and stuck his sword into his opponent’s side so that they both fell dead together. That’s why that place is called The Field of Daggers, which is located in Gibeon.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And each one, taking hold of his peer by the head, fixed a sword into the side of his adversary, and they fell down together. And the name of that place was called: The Field of the Valiant in Gibeon.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And every one, catching his fellow, by the head, thrust his sword into the side of his adversary: and they fell down together. And the name of the place was called: The field of the valiant, in Gabaon.

2 Samuel 2:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:14

9 And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

2 Samuel 2:15

0 And Abner looked behind him, and said: Art thou Asael? And he answered: I am.

2 Samuel 2:17

2 And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest I be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to hold up my face to Joab thy brother.

2 Samuel 2:26

1 But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin, and of the men that were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who all died.

1 Kings 20:20

5 And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses according to the former horses, and chariots according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel and did so.

Acts 1:19

AND when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place:

Joshua 19:25

0 And Amma and Aphec and Rohob: twenty-two cities, and their villages.