2 Samuel 17:11 - Tree of Life Version

¹¹ Instead, I counsel that all Israel be gathered altogether to you—from Dan to Beersheba, as abundant as the sand by the sea—and that you personally go into the battle.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Therefore I counsel that all [the men of] Israel be gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in your own person.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

Common English Bible

¹¹ So I would advise that all the Israelites, from Dan to Beer-sheba—a group as countless as sand on the seashore—be summoned to join you, and that you yourself go into battle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ But this seems to me to be the right counsel: Let all of Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand of the sea which is innumerable. And you will be in their midst.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered. And thou shalt be in the midst of them.

2 Samuel 17:11 Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your seed like the dust of the earth so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your seed could also be counted.

Genesis 21:14

So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 22:17

I will richly bless you and bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

2 Samuel 12:28

So now gather the rest of the troops together, camp against the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city myself and it will be named after me.”

2 Samuel 24:2

The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, so that I may know the sum of the people.”

2 Samuel 3:10

to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba!”

1 Kings 20:10

Then Ben-Hadad sent word to him again saying, “May the gods do so to me and even more, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people at my feet.”

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

Psalm 9:16

The nations sank into the pit they made. The net they hid caught their own foot.

Joshua 11:4

So they came out, they and all their armies with them, a multitude with as many people as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

Judges 20:1

Then all Bnei-Yisrael went out and was assembled as one man, from Dan to Beersheba with the land of Gilead, before Adonai at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 13:5

Meanwhile the Philistines assembled themselves to fight with Israel: 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They marched up and camped in Michmas, east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 3:20

Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was entrusted as a prophet of Adonai.