2 Samuel 15:17

World English Bible (2000)

The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

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  • Ps 3:1-2 : 1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. 2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.
  • Ps 66:12 : 12 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
  • Eccl 10:7 : 7 I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

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

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

    19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

    20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

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

    14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."

    15 The king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."

    16 The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

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

    22 David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.

    23 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 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites 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 finished passing out of the city.

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

    14 The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.

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

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

    28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

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

    30 David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

  • 2 Sam 19:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

    8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

    9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    73%

    17 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 through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

  • 2 Sam 20:7
    72%

    7 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%

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

  • 2 Sam 18:2-4
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    72%

    2 David sent forth the people, a third part 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. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."

    3 But the people said, "You shall 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 you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."

    4 The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    72%

    2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 19:40
    72%

    40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    71%

    9 The king said to 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 the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
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    71%

    2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

    3 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 custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    71%

    21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

  • 1 Sam 23:13
    71%

    13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

  • 2 Sam 17:22
    71%

    22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 19:25
    71%

    25 It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?"

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    70%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

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

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

    10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
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    1 It happened, at the return of the year, 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 children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 29:2
    70%

    2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

  • 2 Sam 18:30
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    30 The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
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    31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
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    13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    14 He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

  • 2 Sam 5:17
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    17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.

  • 2 Sam 15:1
    69%

    1 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
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    15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 2 Sam 11:9
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:2
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    2 Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;

  • 1 Sam 25:12
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    12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.