2 Samuel 8:13 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹³ And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ David won renown. When he returned he slew 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

Common English Bible

¹³ So David made a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Salt Valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ David also made a name for himself when he returned from seizing Syria, in the Valley of the Salt Pits, having cut down eighteen thousand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking Syria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:

2 Samuel 8:13 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

2 Samuel 7:9

and I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

1 Kings 11:15

For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Jo´ab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

2 Kings 14:7

He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Jok´theel unto this day.

1 Chronicles 18:12

Moreover, Ab´ishai the son of Zeru-i´ah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

2 Chronicles 25:11

And Amazi´ah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Se´ir ten thousand.

Psalm 60:1

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou has scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.