2 Samuel 15:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

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  • Ps 3:1-2 : 1 ¶ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me. 2 Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah.
  • Ps 66:12 : 12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy [place].
  • Eccl 10:7 : 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    18And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

    19Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile.

    20Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth [be] with thee.

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

    14And David said unto all his servants that [were] with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not [else] escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

    15And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants [are ready to do] whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.

    16And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, [which were] concubines, to keep the house.

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

    22And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that [were] with him.

    23And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

    24¶ And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.

  • 2 Sam 16:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14And the king, and all the people that [were] with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.

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

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

    28See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

    29Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

    30And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

  • 2 Sam 19:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.

    8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

    9¶ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    73%

    17And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    72%

    7And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 19:15
    72%

    15So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 18:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

    3But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.

    4And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    72%

    2And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 19:40
    72%

    40¶ Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 26:13
    71%

    13¶ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them:

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2So every man of Israel went up from after David, [and] followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

    3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    71%

    21¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

  • 1 Sam 23:13
    71%

    13Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.

  • 2 Sam 17:22
    71%

    22¶ Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 19:25
    71%

    25And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

    24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    70%

    16And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

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

    9So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were] with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

    10But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    70%

    1¶ And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 29:2
    70%

    2And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.

  • 2 Sam 18:30
    70%

    30And the king said [unto him], Turn aside, [and] stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    70%

    31And to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    14¶ And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

  • 2 Sam 5:17
    69%

    17¶ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the hold.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    69%

    1¶ And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    69%

    15But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    69%

    9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

  • 1 Sam 14:2
    69%

    2And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

  • 1 Sam 25:12
    69%

    12¶ So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.