2 Samuel 8:18 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁸ Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and Pelethites [the king's bodyguards]; and David's sons were chief [confidential] assistants to the king.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Jehoiada’s son Benaiah was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and Pelethites. But the sons of David were priests.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.

2 Samuel 8:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:18

All his servants passed on beside him: all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites and all the Gittites—600 men that had come after him from Gath—passed on before the king.

2 Samuel 20:23

Now Joab remained over all the army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

2 Samuel 20:26

and Ira the Jairite also was a kohen to David.

2 Samuel 20:7

So Joab’s men went after him, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, and set out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

1 Kings 1:38

So Zadok the kohen, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down, and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:44

Also the king has sent with him Zadok the kohen, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they had him ride on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 1:8

But Zadok the kohen, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei and David’s mighty men, were not on Adonijah’s side.

1 Kings 2:25

Then King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada. He struck him down and he died.

1 Kings 4:4

Benaiah son of Jehoiada, in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar, kohanim;

1 Kings 4:5

Azariah son of Nathan, in charge of the officers; Zabud son of Nathan the kohen, the king’s personal attendant;

2 Kings 11:4

Now in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains of the hundreds, of both the Carites and the guards, and had them come to him in the House of Adonai. After he cut a covenant with them and put them under oath in the House of Adonai, he showed them the king’s son.

1 Chronicles 11:22

Beniah son of Jehoiada was a valiant man from Kabzeel who had done mighty deeds. He killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab, and went down and killed a lion inside a pit on a snowy day.

1 Chronicles 18:17

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief officials in the service of the king.

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I will stretch out My hand over the Philistines. I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

Zephaniah 2:5

Oy to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of Cherethites! The word of Adonai is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.

1 Samuel 30:14

We made a raid in the Negev of the Cherethites, and on Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb; also we burned Ziklag with fire.”