2 Samuel 15:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Sam 8:18 : 18 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.
  • 1 Sam 30:14 : 14 We made an attack on the south part of the country of the Cherethites, and on the land which is Judah's, and on the south of Caleb; and we put Ziklag on fire.
  • 2 Sam 20:7 : 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 20:23 : 23 Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
  • 1 Kgs 1:38 : 38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and put Solomon on King David's beast and took him to Gihon.
  • 1 Chr 18:17 : 17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.
  • 2 Sam 6:10 : 10 So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
  • 2 Sam 15:19-22 : 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. 21 And Ittai the Gittite in answer said, By the living Lord, and by the life of my lord the king, in whatever place my lord the king may be, for life or death, there will your servant be. 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.
  • 2 Sam 18:2 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 27:3 : 3 And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

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  • 2 Sam 15:14-17
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    85%

    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.

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

  • 2 Sam 15:19-24
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    81%

    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.

    21 And Ittai the Gittite in answer said, By the living Lord, and by the life of my lord the king, in whatever place my lord the king may be, for life or death, there will your servant be.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
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    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 18:1-4
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    77%

    1 And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.

    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 29:2
    76%

    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 19:17-18
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    76%

    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,

    18 And kept going across the river to take the people of the king's house over, and to do whatever was desired by the king. And Shimei, the son of Gera, went down on his face in the dust before the king, when he was about to go over Jordan,

  • 1 Chr 18:17
    74%

    17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
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    73%

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

    13 And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 1 Kgs 2:39-40
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    72%

    39 But after three years, two of the servants of Shimei went in flight to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And word was given to Shimei that his servants had gone to Gath.

    40 Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.

  • 2 Sam 15:30
    72%

    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 17:22
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    72%

    1 Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

  • 1 Sam 23:13
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    72%

    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 18:5
    71%

    5 And David went wherever Saul sent him, and did wisely: and Saul put him at the head of his men of war, and this was pleasing to all the people as well as to Saul's servants.

  • 2 Sam 16:15
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 30:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    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 19:40
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    71%

    8 These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

  • 2 Kgs 11:8
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    8 Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    70%

    7 And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 14:16
    70%

    16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

  • 2 Sam 8:18
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    18 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
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    17 Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    70%

    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 6:1
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    1 And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

  • 1 Sam 21:10-11
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    10 Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

    11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?

  • 1 Sam 14:2
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    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 17:22
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    22 And David gave his parcels into the hands of the keeper of the army stores, and went running to the army and came to his brothers to get knowledge about them.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
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    41 And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    70%

    1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
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    1 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.