2 Samuel 17:9

Modern English Version

Behold, even now he has hidden himself in a ravine or some other place, and when one of them falls in the first attack, whoever hears will say, ‘It was a defeat for the people who follow Absalom.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:10

Then even the valiant one, whose heart is like that of a lion, will completely despair, for all of Israel knows that your father is a warrior, and those who are with him are brave.

2 Samuel 17:8

Moreover, Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are warriors, and they have been provoked like a bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is a veteran of warfare. He will not spend the night with the people.

Jeremiah 41:9

Now the cistern in which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was what Asa the king had made because of Baasha the king of Israel. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were slain.

Joshua 7:5

The men of Ai struck down thirty-six men and pursued them from the gate to Shebarim. They struck them down on the mountainside, and the hearts of the people melted like water.

Joshua 8:6

They will come after us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us as before!’ So we will flee from them.

1 Samuel 22:1

David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down to him there.

1 Samuel 23:22

Please go, make sure again. Investigate and see the place where his foot rests, and who has seen him there, for it has been said to me that he is very cunning.

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to the sheep pens by the way and a cave was there. And Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the rear of the cave.