2 Samuel 5:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.”
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BSBPD
“Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo 2 Samuel 5:18 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 14:5In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- Joshua 15:8From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
- Joshua 17:15Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
- Joshua 18:16Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim and ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the southern slope of the Jebusites and downward to En-rogel.
- 2 Samuel 23:13At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- Isaiah 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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