2 Samuel 17:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ and bring all the people back to you. The death of the man you seek will mean the return of all; all the people will be unharmed.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ I will bring back all the people to you. [The removal of] the man whom you seek is the assurance that all will return; and all the people will be at peace.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

Common English Bible

³ and I will bring all the people back to you like a bride comes back to her husband. It’s only one man’s life you are seeking; everyone else can be at peace.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And I will lead back the entire people, returning in the manner of one man. For you are seeking only one man. And all the people shall be in peace."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man; for thou seekest but one man. And all the people shall be in peace.

2 Samuel 17:3 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:4

This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.

2 Samuel 3:21

Then Abner said to David, ‘Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.’ So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

Isaiah 48:22

‘There is no peace,’ says the Lord, ‘for the wicked.’

Isaiah 57:21

‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked.’

Jeremiah 6:14

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety’, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.