2 Samuel 1:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ David said to the young man who told him, Where are you from? He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.

Common English Bible

¹³ “Where are you from?” David asked the young man who brought him the news. “I’m the son of an immigrant,” he answered. “An Amalekite.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And David said to the youth who had reported it to him, "Where are you from?" And he responded, "I am the son of a man who is a new arrival from the Amalekites."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.

2 Samuel 1:13 Cross References

Genesis 14:7

then they turned back and came to Enmishpat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.

2 Samuel 1:8

And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

1 Samuel 30:13

And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.