2 Samuel 8:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ And David won a name for himself. When he returned, he slew eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ David won renown. When he returned he slew 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

Common English Bible

¹³ So David made a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Salt Valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ David also made a name for himself when he returned from seizing Syria, in the Valley of the Salt Pits, having cut down eighteen thousand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking Syria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:

2 Samuel 8:13 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

2 Samuel 7:9

and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

1 Kings 11:15

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he slew every male in Edom

2 Kings 14:7

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.

1 Chronicles 18:12

And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, slew eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

2 Chronicles 25:11

But Amaziah took courage, and led out his people, and went to the Valley of Salt and smote ten thousand men of Seir.

Psalm 60:1

O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses; thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.