2 Samuel 20:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁵ 0 And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And they came and besieged Sheba in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the men with Joab battered and undermined the wall to make it fall.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Then Joab’s men arrived and attacked Sheba at Abel of Beth-maacah. They piled up a ramp against the city, and it stood against the outer wall. All of Joab’s troops were hammering the wall, trying to bring it down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And so, they went and besieged him at Abel and Bethmaacah. And they surrounded the city with siege works, and the city was blockaded. Then the entire crowd who were with Joab strove to destroy the walls.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And they came, and besieged him in Abela and in Bethmaacha, and they cast up works round the city, and the city was besieged. And all the people that were with Joab laboured to throw down the walls.

2 Samuel 20:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:14

9 Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?

1 Kings 15:20

5 But Nadab the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel the second year of Asa king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.

2 Kings 15:29

4 And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he.

2 Kings 19:32

7 And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas be himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.

Isaiah 37:33

And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

Jeremiah 32:24

2 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 33:4

2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place that is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Jeremiah 6:6

4 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.

Ezekiel 4:2

0 And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.

Luke 19:43

And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one thing. Answer me: