2 Samuel 17:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ After they had gone, the men came up out of the well and went and told King David. They said to David, “Go and cross the water quickly, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ After they had departed, the boys came up out of the well and went and told King David, and said, Arise and pass quickly over the river Jordan; for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said unto David, Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

Common English Bible

²¹ After they had left, Jonathan and Ahimaaz climbed out of the well. They went and reported to King David, “Get up! Cross the water immediately because Ahithophel has made plans against you!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And when they had gone, they ascended from the well. And traveling, they reported to king David, and they said: "Rise up, and go across the river quickly. For Ahithophel has given a counsel of this kind against you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And when they were gone, they came up out of the well; and going on told king David, and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river; for this manner of counsel has Achitophel given against you.

2 Samuel 17:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:22

So David and all the people who were with him set out and crossed the Jordan; by daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.

Psalm 55:7

truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah