David Destroys the Amalekites
1 Samuel 30:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.
- KJV
- But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
- LSV
- and David pursues, he and four hundred men (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the Brook of Besor),
- YLT
- and David pursueth, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor),
- DBY
- And David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to go over the torrent Besor.
- DRC
- But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed, who being weary could not go over the torrent Besor.
- GNV
- But Dauid and foure hundreth men followed (for two hundreth abode behinde, being too wearie to goe ouer the riuer Besor)
- JPS
- But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
- LXXE
- And he pursued them with four hundred men; and there remained behind two hundred men, who tarried on the other side of the brook Bosor.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיִּרְדֹּ֣ף דָּוִ֔ד ה֖וּא וְאַרְבַּע־מֵא֣וֹת אִ֑ישׁ וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ מָאתַ֣יִם אִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּגְּר֔וּ מֵעֲבֹ֖ר אֶת־נַ֥חַל הַבְּשֽׂוֹר׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ κατεδίωξεν ἐν τετρακοσίοις ἀνδράσιν· ὑπέστησαν δὲ διακόσιοι ἄνδρες οἵτινες ἐκάθισαν πέραν τοῦ χειμάῤῥου τοῦ Βοσόρ.
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- 1 Samuel 30:9So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind
- 1 Samuel 30:21When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,
- 1 Samuel 14:20Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.
- 1 Samuel 14:31That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
- Judges 8:4–5Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit. So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still…
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