2 Samuel 18:25

World English Bible (2000)

The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, "If he is alone, there is news in his mouth." He came closer and closer.

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  • 2 Sam 18:26-30
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    91%

    26 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, "Behold, a man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings news."

    27 The watchman said, "I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." The king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good news."

    28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, "All is well." He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!"

    29 The king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don't know what it was."

    30 The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still.

  • 2 Sam 18:21-24
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    86%

    21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen!" The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

    22 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, "But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab said, "Why do you want to run, my son, since that you will have no reward for the news?"

    23 "But come what may," he said, "I will run." He said to him, "Run!" Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.

    24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

  • 2 Sam 18:19
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    19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies."

  • 2 Sam 19:8
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

    35 Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons are coming! It is as your servant said."

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
    72%

    39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

  • 2 Sam 17:17-18
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    72%

    17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

    18 But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

  • 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.

  • 2 Sam 11:18-20
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    18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

    19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,

    20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
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    11 He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

  • 2 Sam 11:22-23
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    22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

    23 The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.

  • 1 Sam 21:1
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    1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?"

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • Isa 21:6
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    6 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

  • 2 Sam 1:3-6
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    3 David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel."

    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?"

    6 The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

  • 1 Kgs 1:42
    70%

    42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, "Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news."

  • 1 Sam 17:22-23
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    70%

    22 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

    23 As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
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    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 Kgs 9:17
    69%

    17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'"

  • 2 Sam 15:17-18
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    69%

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

    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.

  • 2 Sam 17:2
    69%

    2 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him shall flee. I will strike the king only;

  • 2 Kgs 9:20
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    20 The watchman said, "He came to them, and isn't coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."

  • 1 Kgs 1:22
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    22 Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

  • 2 Sam 15:28
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    28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

  • 2 Sam 15:13-14
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    13 A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."

    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."

  • Isa 21:8
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    8 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
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    20 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
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    41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

  • Isa 21:12
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    12 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

  • 1 Sam 30:21
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    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.