2 Samuel 18:24 - Easy To Read Version

²⁴ David was sitting between the two gates {of the city}. The watchman went up to the roof over the gate walls. The watchman looked up and saw a man running alone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate by the wall, and when he looked, he saw a man running alone.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Now David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman on duty went up on the roof of the gate by the wall. He looked out and saw a man running alone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Now David was sitting between the two gates. Truly, the watchman, who was at the summit of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18:24 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:34

Absalom ran away.

2 Samuel 18:23

Ahimaaz answered, “No matter what happens, I will run {to David}.”

2 Samuel 18:25

The watchman shouted to tell King David.

2 Samuel 18:4

The king said to his people, “I will do what you think is best.”

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king went to the city gate. [107] The news spread that the king was at the gate. So all the people came to see the king.

1 Samuel 4:13

Eli was sitting on a chair near the city gates when this man came to Shiloh. Eli was worried about God’s Holy Box, [47] so he was sitting there waiting and watching. Then the Benjamite man came into Shiloh and told the bad news. All the people in town began to cry out loud.