2 Samuel 11:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall say to Joab: Do not let this thing trouble you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it. So encourage him.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    David said to the messenger, 'Say this to Joab: Don’t let this thing upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Press your attack against the city and destroy it. Encourage him.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then David{H1732} said{H559} unto the messenger,{H4397} Thus shalt thou say{H559} unto Joab,{H3097} Let not this thing{H1697} displease{H3415} thee, for the sword{H2719} devoureth{H398} one as well as another;{H2090} make thy battle{H4421} more strong{H2388} against the city,{H5892} and overthrow{H2040} it: and encourage{H2388} thou him.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then David{H1732} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto the messenger{H4397}, Thus shalt thou say{H559}{(H8799)} unto Joab{H3097}, Let not this thing{H1697} displease{H3415}{(H8799)}{H5869} thee, for the sword{H2719} devoureth{H398}{(H8799)} one as well as another{H2090}: make thy battle{H4421} more strong{H2388}{(H8685)} against the city{H5892}, and overthrow{H2040}{(H8798)} it: and encourage{H2388}{(H8761)} thou him.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Dauid sayde vnto the messaunger: Thus shalt thou saye vnto Ioab: Let not yt vexe the, for the swerde consumeth now one now another. Go forth with the battayll against the cite, that thou mayest destroye it, and coforte the men.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing trouble thee: for the sworde deuoureth one as well as another: make thy battell more strong against the citie & destroy it, & encourage thou him.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Dauid saide vnto the messenger, thus shalt thou saye vnto Ioab: Let not that thing trouble thee, for ye sword deuoureth one as well as another: Make thy battayle more strong against the citie to ouerthrowe it, & encourage thou him.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And David saith unto the messenger, `Thus dost thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing be evil in thine eyes; for thus and thus doth the sword devour; strengthen thy warfare against the city, and throw it down -- and strengthen thou him.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    David said to the messenger,“Tell Joab,‘Don’t let this thing upset you. There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. Press the battle against the city and conquer it.’ Encourage him with these words.”

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 7:8-9 : 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies? 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
  • 1 Sam 6:9 : 9 And watch, if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it was not His hand that struck us, but it happened to us by chance.
  • 2 Sam 12:26 : 26 Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.
  • Eccl 9:11-12 : 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 11:6-24
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    79%

    6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

    7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.

    8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet. So Uriah departed from the king's house, and a gift of food from the king followed him.

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

    10 When they told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?

    11 And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.

    12 Then David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

    13 Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

    14 In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

    15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the fiercest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.

    16 So it happened, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.

    17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

    18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,

    19 and charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king,

    20 if it so happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you, Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know they would shoot from the wall?

    21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall? Then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

    22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.

    23 And the messenger said to David, Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field, and we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate.

    24 The archers shot from the wall at your servants, and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

  • 2 Sam 11:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

    27 And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-11
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    74%

    9 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

    10 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

    11 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

  • 2 Sam 20:11
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    11 And one of Joab's men stood by Amasa and said, Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15 And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • 1 Sam 30:6
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    6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    72%

    31 And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    72%

    7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    71%

    15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had killed every male in Edom.

  • 1 Chr 21:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 And Joab answered, May the LORD make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then does my lord require this thing? why will he bring guilt upon Israel?

    4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab went out and went throughout all Israel, and came back to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 10:12
    71%

    12 Be of good courage, and let us be valiant for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do what seems good to him.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    71%

    13 And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. And each one girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  • 1 Sam 26:10
    71%

    10 David said furthermore, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish."

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    71%

    1 And it came to pass, after the year had ended, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 15:14
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes on his feet.

    6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    70%

    23 Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with what the LORD has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Chr 19:13
    70%

    13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God; and let the LORD do what is good in his sight.

  • 2 Sam 24:3
    70%

    3 And Joab said to the king, Now the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

  • 2 Sam 20:21
    70%

    21 The matter is not so; but a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    69%

    8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.

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    15 And Nathan departed to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it became very sick.

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    11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, Thus did David, and so will be his way all the time he dwells in the country of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 19:5
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    5 And Joab came into the house to the king and said, You have shamed today the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

  • 2 Sam 11:3
    69%

    3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

  • 2 Sam 12:27-28
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    27 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah and have taken the city of waters.

    28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, encamp against the city, and take it: unless I take the city, and it be called by my name.

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