2 Samuel 15:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.

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  • Ps 3:1-2 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me. 2 Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)
  • Ps 66:12 : 12 You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.
  • Eccl 10:7 : 7 I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

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  • 2 Sam 15:18-20
    3 verses
    85%

    18 And all the people went on by his side; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the men of Ittai of Gath, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, went on before the king.

    19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.

    20 It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

  • 2 Sam 15:14-16
    3 verses
    81%

    14 And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.

    15 And the king's servants said to the king, See, your servants are ready to do whatever the king says is to be done.

    16 So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

  • 2 Sam 15:22-24
    3 verses
    74%

    22 And David said to Ittai, Go forward, then. And Ittai the Gittite went on, with all his men and all the little ones he had with him.

    23 And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.

    24 Then Zadok came, and Abiathar, and with them the ark of God's agreement: and they put down the ark of God, till all the people from the town had gone by.

  • 2 Sam 16:14-15
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    74%

    14 And the king and his people came tired to Jordan, and took their rest there.

    15 And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

  • 2 Sam 15:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28 See, I will be waiting at the way across the river, in the waste land, till I get news from you.

    29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

    30 And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

  • 2 Sam 19:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

    8 Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.

    9 And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    73%

    17 And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    72%

    7 So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    72%

    15 So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 18:2-4
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    72%

    2 And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

    3 But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.

    4 And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    72%

    2 So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 19:40
    72%

    40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him: and all the people of Judah, as well as half the people of Israel, took the king on his way.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    71%

    9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
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    13 Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
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    71%

    2 So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

    3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    71%

    21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

  • 1 Sam 23:13
    71%

    13 Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.

  • 2 Sam 17:22
    71%

    22 So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 19:25
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    25 Now when he had come from Jerusalem to see the king, the king said to him, Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

    24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    70%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

  • 1 Sam 30:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.

    10 And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    70%

    1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 29:2
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    2 And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.

  • 2 Sam 18:30
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    30 And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
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    31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
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    13 When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.

    14 And Sheba went through all the tribes of Israel, to Abel of Beth-maacah; and all the Bichrites came together and went in after him.

  • 2 Sam 5:17
    69%

    17 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    69%

    1 Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
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    15 Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    69%

    9 But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

  • 1 Sam 14:2
    69%

    2 And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him;

  • 1 Sam 25:12
    69%

    12 So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.