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2 Samuel 20:13

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • KJV King James Version

    When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to 2 Samuel 20:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 20:19 The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
  • Judges 21:19 They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
  • 1 Samuel 6:12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
  • 2 Samuel 20:12-13 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still. When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 2 Kings 18:17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
  • Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
  • Isaiah 7:3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
  • Isaiah 36:2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
  • Isaiah 62:10 Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.
  • Jeremiah 31:21 “Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.
  • Mark 10:46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 20:13 When he was removed out of the…

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

Ver. 13. All the people went on after Joab.] So fast affected they were to him, notwithstanding these foul miscarriages and David’s displeasure to boot.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain When he was removed out of the highway,.... Into…

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