2 Samuel 17:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ and bring back all the people to you. When all return except the man whom you seek, all the people should be at peace.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ I will bring back all the people to you. [The removal of] the man whom you seek is the assurance that all will return; and all the people will be at peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

Common English Bible

³ and I will bring all the people back to you like a bride comes back to her husband. It’s only one man’s life you are seeking; everyone else can be at peace.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And I will lead back the entire people, returning in the manner of one man. For you are seeking only one man. And all the people shall be in peace."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man; for thou seekest but one man. And all the people shall be in peace.

2 Samuel 17:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:4

And the saying pleased Aḇshalom and all the elders of Yisra’ĕl.

2 Samuel 3:21

And Aḇnĕr said to Dawiḏ, “Let me arise and go, and gather all Yisra’ĕl to my master the sovereign, and let them make a covenant with you, and you shall reign over all that your being desires.” And Dawiḏ sent Aḇnĕr away, and he went in peace.

Isaiah 48:22

“There is no peace for the wrong,” said יהוה.”

Isaiah 57:21

“There is no peace,” said my Elohim, “for the wrong.”

Jeremiah 6:14

“And they heal the breach of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.