2 Samuel 17:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ Now send a message at once and tell David, “Do not spend the night at the fords in the wilderness; cross over without fail, or the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.” ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Now send quickly and tell David, Lodge not this night at the fords [at the Jordan] of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king be swallowed up and all the people with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Now send word immediately to David and tell him, ‘Don’t spend the night in the desert plains. You must cross over immediately. Otherwise, the king and all the troops who are with him will be swallowed up whole.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Now therefore, send quickly, and report to David, saying: 'You shall not stay this night in the plains of the desert. Instead, without delay, go across. Otherwise the king may be engulfed, and all the people who are with him.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.

2 Samuel 17:16 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 15:14

Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, ‘Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.’

2 Samuel 15:28

I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.’

2 Samuel 15:35

Won’t the priests Zadok and Abiathar be there with you? Tell them anything you hear in the king’s palace.

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them think, ‘Aha, just what we wanted!’ or say, ‘We have swallowed him up.’

Psalm 55:8

I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.’

Psalm 56:2

My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.

Psalm 57:3

He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me – God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

1 Samuel 20:38

Then he shouted, ‘Hurry! Go quickly! Don’t stop!’ The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.