2 Samuel 17:8

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And again Hushai said, Thou knowest, that thy father, and the men that be with him, be most strong, and in bitter soul, as if a she bear is fierce in the forest, when her whelps be ravished from her; but also thy father is a man warrior, and he shall not dwell with the people.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:18

And all his servants went beside him, and the legions of Cherethites and of Pelethites, and all the strong fighting men of Gath, six hundred men, that pursued [or followed] him from Gath, went on foot before the king.

2 Samuel 17:9

In hap now he is hid, either lurketh, in ditches, either in one place, in which he will hide him; and when any man falleth in the beginning, whoever shall hear it, he shall hear, and shall say, Vengeance is done in the people that pursued Absalom.

2 Samuel 23:16

Therefore the three strong men brake into the tents of Philistines, and drew water of the cistern of Beth-lehem, that was beside the gate, and they brought it to David; and he would not drink, but offered it to the Lord,

2 Samuel 23:18

Also Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was prince of [the] three; he it is that raised his spear against three hundred men, which he killed; he was named among [the] three,

2 Kings 2:24

And when he had beheld, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two bears went out of the forest, and rent two and forty children of them.

Proverbs 17:12

It speedeth more to meet a female bear, when her whelps be ravished, than a fool trusting to himself in his folly.

Proverbs 28:15

A roaring lion, and an hungry bear, is a wicked prince on a poor people.

Ezekiel 19:2

and thou shalt say, Why thy mother, a lioness, lay among lions? In the midst of little lions she nourished her whelps,

Daniel 7:5

And lo! another beast, like a bear in part, stood, and three orders were in the mouth thereof, and three princes in the teeth thereof. And thus they said to it, Rise thou, eat thou full many fleshes.

Hosea 13:8

I as a female bear, when the whelps be ravished, shall meet them; and shall all-break the inner things of the maw of them. And I as a lion shall waste them there; a beast of the field shall rend them.

Judges 18:25

And the sons of Dan said to him, Beware, lest thou speak [any] more to us, and men stirred in soul come to thee, and thou perish with all thine house.

1 Samuel 16:18

And one of his children answered and said, Lo! I saw a son of Jesse of Bethlehem, knowing how to sing, and most strong man, and a man able to battle, and prudent in words, and a fair man; and the Lord is with him.

1 Samuel 17:50

And David had the mastery against the Philistine in a sling and a stone, and he killed the Philistine smitten. And when David had no sword in his hand,

1 Samuel 23:23

Behold ye, and see all his hiding places, in which he is hid, and then turn ye again to me at a certain thing, that I go with you; that if he encloseth himself yea in [the] earth, I shall seek him with all the thousands of Judah.