2 Samuel 14:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Then Joab rose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?

Common English Bible

³¹ So Joab went straight to Absalom’s house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my property on fire?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And Joab rose up, and he went to Absalom at his house, and he said, "Why have your servants set fire to my grain field?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why have thy servants set my corn on fire?

2 Samuel 14:31 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:30

Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

2 Samuel 14:32

Absalom answered Joab, “Look, I sent word to you. Come here that I may send you to the king with the question, ‘Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.’ Now let me go into the king’s presence; if there is guilt in me, let him kill me!”