2 Samuel 14:26 - Easy To Read Version

²⁶ At the end of every year, Absalom cut the hair from his head and weighed it. The hair weighed about five pounds. [79]

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it; because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it;) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And when he cut the hair of his head, he weighed it–for at each year's end he cut it, because its weight was a burden to him–and it weighed 200 shekels by the king's weight.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

Common English Bible

²⁶ When he shaved his head—he had to shave his head at the end of each year because his hair was so heavy that he had to shave it—the weight of the hair from his head was two hundred shekels by the royal weight.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And when he shaved off his hair, for he shaved it off once a year, because his long hair was burdensome to him, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, by the public weights.

2 Samuel 14:26 Cross References

Genesis 23:16

Abraham understood that Ephron was telling him the price of the land. [130] So Abraham paid him for the land. Abraham weighed 10 pounds [131] of silver for Ephron and gave it to the merchant. [132]

2 Samuel 18:9

It happened that Absalom met David’s officers. Absalom jumped on his mule and tried to escape. The mule went under the branches of a large oak tree. The branches were thick, and Absalom’s head got caught in the tree. His mule ran out from under him, so Absalom was hanging above the ground. [105]

Isaiah 3:24

\{Those women now have\} sweet smelling perfume, but \{at that time, their perfume will become\} moldy and rotten. \{Now they wear\} belts. But \{at that time, they will have only\} ropes to wear. Now they have their hair fixed fancy ways. But \{at that time\}, their heads will be shaved—they will have no hair. {\cf2\super [37]} \{Now they have\} party dresses. \{But at that time, they will have\} only clothes to show sadness. They have beauty marks on their faces now. \{But at that time, they will have another mark.\} It will be a mark burned into their skin.

Ezekiel 44:20

“These priests won’t shave their heads or let their hair grow long. \{This would show they are sad, and the priests must be happy about serving the Lord.\} The priests may only trim the hair of their heads.

Leviticus 19:36

Your baskets should be the right size. Your jars should hold the right amount of liquids. Your weights and balances should weigh things correctly. I am the Lord your God! I brought you out from the land of Egypt!

1 Corinthians 11:14

Even nature itself teaches you that wearing long hair is shameful for a man.