2 Samuel 8:18 - King James Version - American Edition

¹⁸ and Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada was over both the Cher´ethites and the Pel´ethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and Pelethites [the king's bodyguards]; and David's sons were chief [confidential] assistants to the king.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Jehoiada’s son Benaiah was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and Pelethites. But the sons of David were priests.

2 Samuel 8:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:18

And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cher´ethites, and all the Pel´ethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

2 Samuel 20:23

Now Jo´ab was over all the host of Israel: and Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada was over the Cher´ethites and over the Pel´ethites:

2 Samuel 20:26

and Ira also the Ja´irite was a chief ruler about David.

2 Samuel 20:7

And there went out after him Jo´ab's men, and the Cher´ethites, and the Pel´ethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

1 Kings 1:38

So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada, and the Cher´ethites, and the Pel´ethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:44

And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada, and the Cher´ethites, and the Pel´ethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:

1 Kings 1:8

But Zadok the priest, and Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shim´e-i, and Re´i, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adoni´jah.

1 Kings 2:25

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada; and he fell upon him that he died.

1 Kings 4:4

And Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada was over the host: and Zadok and Abi´athar were the priests:

1 Kings 4:5

and Azari´ah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:

2 Kings 11:4

And the seventh year Jehoi´ada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and showed them the king's son.

1 Chronicles 11:22

Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada, the son of a valiant man of Kab´zeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

1 Chronicles 18:17

and Benai´ah the son of Jehoi´ada was over the Cher´ethites and the Pel´ethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cher´ethim, and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

Zephaniah 2:5

Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cher´ethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

1 Samuel 30:14

We made an invasion upon the south of the Cher´ethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.