2 Samuel 17:9

Easy To Read Version

He is probably already hiding in a cave or some other place. If your father attacks your men first, then people will hear the news. And they will think, ‘Absalom’s followers are losing!’

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:10

Then even the people who are as brave as a lion will become scared. Why? Because all the Israelites know that your father is a strong fighter and that his men are brave.

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai added, “You know that your father and his men are strong men. They are as dangerous as a wild bear when something has taken its babies. Your father is a skilled fighter. He will not stay {all night} with the people.

Jeremiah 41:9

(Ishmael threw the dead bodies into the cistern until it was full—and that cistern was very big! It had been built by a king of Judah named Asa. King Asa had made the cistern so that during war there would be water in the city. {\cf2\super [339]} Asa did this to protect his city from Baasha, the king of Israel.)

Joshua 8:6

Those men will chase us away from the city. They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So we will run away.

1 Samuel 22:1

David left Gath. David ran away to the cave [187] of Adullam. David’s brothers and relatives heard that David was at Adullam. They went to see David there.

1 Samuel 23:22

Go and learn more about David. Learn where he is staying. And learn who has seen David there. Saul thought, ‘David is smart. He is trying to trick me.’

1 Samuel 24:3

Saul came to the sheep pens beside the road. There was a cave near there. Saul went into the cave to relieve himself. David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.