2 Samuel 1:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’”
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BSBPD
“‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And he saith to me, Who <FI>art<Fi> thou? and I say unto him, An Amalekite I <FI>am<Fi> .'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo 2 Samuel 1:8 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 14:7Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
- Exodus 17:8After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
- Numbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
- Deuteronomy 25:17Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
- 1 Samuel 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
- 1 Samuel 27:8Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
- 1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
- 1 Samuel 30:13Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
- 1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
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