2 Samuel 19:36

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?”

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BSBPD

“Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Samuel 19:36 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
  3. Luke 6:38Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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