2 Samuel 2:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Three sons of Zeruiah [the half sister of David] were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe or antelope.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Now Zeruiah’s three sons were present at the battle: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as fast as a gazelle in an open field.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Now the three sons of Zeruiah were in that place: Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel. And Asahel was a very swift runner, like one of the deer that lives in the forest.

2 Samuel 2:18 Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:8

And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David to the hold in the wilderness, mighty men of valour, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

Habakkuk 3:19

Jehovah the Lord, is my strength, And he maketh my feet like hinds' feet, And will make me to walk upon mine high places. For the Chief Musician, on my stringed instruments.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

Song of Solomon 2:17

Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.

Psalm 18:33

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: And setteth me upon my high places.

Amos 2:14

And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but fame and chance happeneth to them all.

1 Chronicles 11:26

Also the mighty men of the armies; Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

1 Samuel 26:6

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

2 Samuel 2:19

And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

2 Samuel 22:34

He maketh his feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

2 Samuel 23:24

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

1 Kings 2:5

Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

2 Samuel 14:1

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

1 Chronicles 12:9

Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third;

1 Chronicles 27:7

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.