2 Samuel 1:15

World English Bible (2000)

David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

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  • Judg 8:20 : 20 He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them!" But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.
  • 1 Sam 22:17-18 : 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. 18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
  • 2 Sam 4:10-12 : 10 when someone told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?" 12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
  • 1 Kgs 2:25 : 25 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
  • 1 Kgs 2:34 : 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
  • 1 Kgs 2:46 : 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
  • Job 5:12 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
  • Prov 11:18 : 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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    16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

    17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 2 Sam 1:13-14
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    13 David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."

    14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

  • 1 Sam 26:8-10
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    8 Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."

    9 David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?"

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

  • 2 Sam 1:9-10
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    9 He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'

    10 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord."

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
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    25 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

  • 1 Sam 22:16-17
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    16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

    17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
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    31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
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    5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

  • 1 Sam 17:26-27
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    26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

    27 The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

  • 2 Sam 4:10-12
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    76%

    10 when someone told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

    11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

    12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 2:34
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    34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 1:4-5
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    4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

    5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"

  • 1 Sam 17:35
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    35 I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

  • 1 Sam 17:49-51
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    49 David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

    50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

    51 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

  • 2 Sam 19:21
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    21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?"

  • 2 Sam 16:9
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    9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."

  • 2 Sam 18:15
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    15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 1 Sam 19:1
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    1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Chr 20:7
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    7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him.

  • 2 Sam 11:15
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    15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die."

  • 2 Sam 12:5
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    5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!

  • 1 Sam 24:10-11
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    10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

    11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

  • 1 Chr 10:14
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    14 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 26:22
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    22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

  • 1 Kgs 20:37
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    37 Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

  • 2 Sam 21:21
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    21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
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    46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

  • 1 Chr 10:5
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    5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.

  • 2 Sam 21:17
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    17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel."

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7 The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 26:16
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    16 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

  • 1 Sam 19:15
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    15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."

  • 1 Sam 30:15
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    15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
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    15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

  • 2 Sam 12:15
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    15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.