2 Samuel 13:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ But Absalom fled. When the young man who kept watch looked up, he saw many people coming from the Horonaim road by the side of the mountain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch looked up, and behold, many people were coming by the way of the hillside behind him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.

Common English Bible

³⁴ and Absalom has fled.” Just then the young man on watch looked up and saw many people coming on the road behind him alongside the mountain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Now Absalom fled. And the young man keeping watch, lifted up his eyes and gazed out. And behold, many people were arriving along a remote road at the side of the mountain.

2 Samuel 13:34 Cross References

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled from a lion and was met by a bear or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall and was bitten by a snake.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

2 Samuel 13:35

Jonadab said to the king, “See, the king’s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.”

2 Samuel 18:24

Now David was sitting between the two gates. The sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he looked up he saw a man running alone.