2 Samuel 21:15

World English Bible (2000)

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

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  • 2 Sam 5:17 : 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 5:22 : 22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Sam 5:25 : 25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.
  • 1 Chr 20:4 : 4 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
  • Ps 71:9 : 9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Eccl 12:3 : 3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,
  • Isa 40:28-30 : 28 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. 30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
  • Jer 9:23-24 : 23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches; 24 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.
  • 1 Pet 1:24-25 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; 25 but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
  • Josh 14:10-11 : 10 "Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today. 11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 19:8
    82%

    8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:19-21
    3 verses
    77%

    19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

    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.

    21 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    77%

    1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men."

  • 1 Chr 14:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.

    9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

    10 David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand."

  • 2 Sam 5:17-19
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

    18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

    19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand."

  • 1 Chr 14:13
    76%

    13 The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.

  • 1 Sam 31:1
    76%

    1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
    76%

    1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 21:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being armed with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.

    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."

  • 1 Sam 17:48
    75%

    48 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
    74%

    10 He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.

  • 1 Sam 17:32
    74%

    32 David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."

  • 1 Sam 17:41
    74%

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

  • 1 Sam 23:1-5
    5 verses
    74%

    1 David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

    2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

    3 David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

    4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."

    5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
    74%

    16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

  • 1 Sam 17:50-52
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.

  • 2 Sam 5:22
    74%

    22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 18:30
    73%

    30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

  • 1 Sam 14:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.

    21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] all around, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 2 Sam 3:1
    73%

    1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
    73%

    10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 14:52
    73%

    52 There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.

  • 1 Sam 17:11
    73%

    11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

  • 1 Sam 17:23
    73%

    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 17:45
    72%

    45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

  • 1 Chr 11:15
    72%

    15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 17:2
    72%

    2 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    72%

    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 Chr 19:17
    72%

    17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
    72%

    37 David said, "Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go; and Yahweh shall be with you."

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    72%

    8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    72%

    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 Chr 18:1
    72%

    1 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 14:31
    72%

    31 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

  • 1 Sam 29:2
    72%

    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.