2 Samuel 17:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² I will come upon him while he is exhausted and weak, and cause him to panic; all the people with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

Common English Bible

² I will attack him while he is tired and weak, and I will throw him into a panic. All the troops with him will run off. I promise to kill the king alone,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And rushing against him, for he is weary and has weakened hands, I will strike him. And when all the people who are with him will have fled, I will strike down the king in isolation.

2 Samuel 17:2 Cross References

1 Kings 22:31

Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with no one small or great but only with the king of Israel.”

2 Samuel 16:14

The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary at the Jordan, and there he refreshed himself.

John 11:50

You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”

Matthew 26:31

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’

Deuteronomy 25:18

how he attacked you on the way, when you were faint and weary, and struck down all who lagged behind you; he did not fear God.

2 Samuel 17:1

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

Nehemiah 4:5

Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have raged against the builders.