2 Kings 6:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ So [the king] prepared great provision for them, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

Common English Bible

²³ So the king gave them a great feast, and they ate and drank. Then the king let them go, and they returned to their master. After that, Aramean raiding parties didn’t come into Israel anymore.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And a great preparation of foods was placed before them. And they ate and drank. And he dismissed them. And they went away to their lord. And the robbers of Syria no longer came into the land of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate and drank. And he let them go: and they went away to their master. And the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

2 Kings 6:23 Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

2 Kings 5:2

Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Naaman's wife.

2 Chronicles 28:15

And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.

Psalm 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!”

Matthew 5:47

And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish.