2 Samuel 17:8

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And Chusai sayde morouer: Thou knowest thy father well and his men, that they are stronge and of a wrothfull stomack, euen as a Beer that is robbed of hir yonge ones in the felde, Thy father also is a man of warre, and wyl not be necliget with the people.

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  • Hos 13:8 : 8 I wil come vpon them as a she beer, that is robbed of hir welpes, and I wil breake that stubburne herte of theirs. There wil I deuoure them as a lyon: yee the wylde beastes shal teare them.
  • 1 Sam 16:18 : 18 Then answered one of the children, & sayde: Beholde, I sawe a sonne of Isai ye Bethleemite, which can playe vpon the instrumete, an honest & valeaut man, and one yt hath vnderstodinge in matters, & is welfauoured.
  • Heb 11:32-34 : 32 And what shal I more saye? ye tyme wolde be to shorte for me to tell of Gedeon, of Barac, and of Samson, & of Iepthae, and of Dauid, and Samuel, and of the prophetes, 33 which thorow faith subdued kyngdomes, wroughte righteousnes, optayned ye promyses, stopped ye mouthes of lyos 34 quenched the violece of fyre, escaped ye edge of the swerde, of weake were made stronge, became valeaunt in batayll, turned to flighte the armyes of the aleauntes,
  • Prov 17:12 : 12 It were better to come agaynst a she Bere robbed of hir whelpes, then agaynst a foole in his foolishnes.
  • Dan 7:5 : 5 Beholde, the seconde beest was like a Beer, and stode vpon the one syde. Amonge his teth in his mouth he had iij greate loge teth and it was sayde vnto him: Arise, eate vp moch flesh.
  • Judg 18:25 : 25 But the childre of Dan saide vnto him: Let not thy voyce be herde amoge vs, that some wrothfull me thrust not at the, and so yi soule and the soule of yi house be destroyed.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 Like as a roaringe lyon and an hongrie beer, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore people.
  • 1 Sam 17:34-36 : 34 Dauid sayde vnto Saul: Thy seruaunt kepte his fathers shepe, and there came a lyon and a Bere, and caried awaye a shepe from the flocke, 35 then wente I forth after him, and smote him, and delyuered it out of his mouth. And whan he wolde haue bene vpon me, I toke him by his beerde, and smote him, and slewe him. 36 So thy seruaunt smote both the Lyon and ye Bere. Therfore shall this Philistyne this vncircumcysed be euen as one of them: for he hath defyed the hoost of the lyuynge God.
  • 1 Sam 17:50 : 50 So Dauid ouercame ye Philistyne with the slynge and with ye stone, and smote him, and slewe him. And for so moch as Dauid had no swerde in his hande,
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 Loke well and spye out all the places, where he hydeth him, and come agayne to me, whan ye are sure, and I will go with you. Yf he be in the londe, I wyl enquere after him amonge all the thousandes in Iuda.
  • 2 Sam 15:18 : 18 and all his seruauntes wente by him, and all the Chrethians and Plethians, and all the Gethites (euen sixe hundreth men) which were come on fote from Gath, wente before the kynge.
  • 2 Sam 21:18-22 : 18 Afterwarde there arose yet warre at Nob with the Philistynes. Then Sibechai the Husathite smote Saph, which also was one of the childre of Rapha. 19 And there arose yet warre at Gob with the Philistynes. Then Elhanan the sonne of Iaere Orgim a Bethleemite smote Goliath the Gethite, which had a speare, whose shaft was like a weeuers lome. 20 And there arose yet warre at Gath, where there was a cotencious man, which had sixe fyngers on his handes, and sixe toes on his fete, that is foure and twety in the nombre, and he was borne also of Rapha. 21 And whan he spake despitefully vnto Israel, Ionathas ye sonne of Simea Dauids brother smote him. 22 These foure were borne vnto Rapha at Gath, and fell thorow the hande of Dauid and of his seruauntes.
  • 2 Sam 23:8-9 : 8 These are the names of Dauids Worthies: Iasabeam ye sonne of Hachmoni, the chefest amonge thre, which lifte vp his speare, & slewe eight hundreth at one tyme. 9 After him was Eleasar the sonne of Dodi the sonne of Ahohi amonge the thre Worthies with Dauid, whan they spake despytefully to the Philistynes, and were gathered together to the battayll, and the men of Israel wente vp.
  • 2 Sam 23:16 : 16 The brake the thre Worthies into the hoost of the Philistynes, and drue of the water out of the well at Bethleem vnder ye gate, & caried it & broughte it vnto Dauid: neuertheles he wolde not drynke it, but offred it vnto the LORDE,
  • 2 Sam 23:18 : 18 Abisai ye brother of Ioab the sonne of Zeru Ia was one also chefe amoge thre. He lifte vp his speare & smote thre hundreth, & was an awncient man amoge thre,
  • 2 Sam 23:20-22 : 20 And Benaia the sonne of Ioiada, the sonne of Ishail (a man of greate actes of Cabzeell) smote two mightie giautes of ye Moabites, & wete downe, & slewe a lyon at a well in the snowe tyme. 21 He smote also a fayre goodly man of Egipte, which had a speare in his hande. But he wete downe to him with a staffe, and toke the speare out of the Egipcians hande by violence, and slewe him with his owne speare. 22 This dyd Benaia the sonne of Ioiada, and was a famous man amoge thre Worthies,
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 And he turned him aboute. And wha he sawe them, he cursed them in the name of the LORDE. Then came there two Beeres out of the wod, and rente two and fortye of the children.
  • 1 Chr 11:25-47 : 25 and most awncient amonge thirtie. But vnto the thre came he not. Howbeit Dauid made him of his secrete councell. 26 The valeaunt Worthies are these: Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanam his Vncles sonne of Bethleem, 27 Samoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite, 28 Ira the sonne of Ekes the Thecoite, Abraser the Anathothite, 29 Sibechai the Husathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30 Matherai the Netophatite, Heled ye sonne of Baena ye Netophatite, 31 Ithai ye sonne of Ribai of Gibeath of the childre of Ben Ianim, Benaia the Pirgathonite, 32 Hura of the broke of Gaas. Abiel the arbathite, 33 Asmaueth the Baherunite, Eliahba the Saalbonite. 34 The children of Hasem ye Gisonite, Ionathas the sonne of Sage the Hararite, 35 Ahiam the sonne of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the sonne of Vr, 36 Hepher the Macherathite, Ahia the Pelonite, 37 Hezro of Carmel, Naerai the sonne of A?bai, 38 Ioel the brother of Nathan, Mibehar the sonne of Hagri, 39 Zeleg the Ammonite, Naherai the Berothithe the wapenbearer of Ioab the sonne of Zeruia, 40 Ira the Iethrite, Gareb the Iethrite, 41 Vrias the Hethite, Sabad the sonne of Ahalai, 42 Adina the sonne of Sisa the Rubenite, a captayne of the Rubenites, and there were thirtie vnder him: 43 Hanam ye sonne of Maecha, Iosaphat the Mathonite, 44 Vsia ye Astharathite, Sama and Iaiel, the sonnes of Hotham the Aroerite, 45 Iediael the sonne of Simri, Ioha his brother the Thirzite, 46 Eliel the Mahenite, Ieribai and Iosua the sonnes of Elnaan, Iethma the Moabite, 47 Eliel, Obed, Iaesiel of Mizobaia.

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