2 Samuel 17:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king”
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“I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:”
King James Version · Public Domain“and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who <FI>are<Fi> with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Samuel 17:2 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 25:18how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.
- 2 Samuel 16:14Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived, exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.
- 1 Kings 22:31Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”
- Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
- Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- Matthew 21:38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
- Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
- John 18:4Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon Him, stepped forward and asked them, “Whom are you seeking?”
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