2 Kings 6:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, “Father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

Common English Bible

²¹ When he saw them, Israel’s king said to Elisha, “Should I kill them, my father? Should I?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And the king of Israel, when he had seen them, said to Elisha, "My father, should I not strike them?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My father, shall I kill them?

2 Kings 6:21 Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha kept watching and crying out, “Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 5:13

But his servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

2 Kings 8:9

So Hazael went to meet him, taking a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he entered and stood before him, he said, “Your son King Ben-hadad of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this illness?’ ”

Luke 22:49

When those who were around him saw what was coming, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”

1 Samuel 24:19

For who has ever found an enemy and sent the enemy safely away? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

1 Samuel 24:4

The men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.’ ” Then David went and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s cloak.

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”