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David’s Mighty Men

2 Samuel 23:13

In 11 translations

BSB
At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
KJV
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.three…: or, the three captains over the thirty
WEB
Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
ASV
And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
LSV
And three of the thirty heads go down and come to the harvest, to David, to the cave of Adullam, and the company of the Philistines are encamping in the Valley of Rephaim,
YLT
And three of the thirty heads go down and come unto the harvest, unto David, unto the cave of Adullam, and the company of the Philistines are encamping in the valley of Rephaim,
DBY
And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, when the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
DRC
Moreover also before this the three who were princes among the thirty, went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was in the valley of the giants.
GNV
Afterward three of the thirtie captaines went downe, and came to Dauid in the haruest time vnto the caue of Adullam, and the hoste of the Philistims pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
JPS
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
LXXE
And three out of the thirty went down, and came to Cason to David, to the cave of Odollam; and there was an army of the Philistines, and they encamped in the valley of Raphain.

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  • Written (Ketiv): שְׁלֹשִׁים (“thirty”). Read aloud (Qere): שְׁלֹשָׁ֜ה (“three”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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  • Leningrad Codex reads שְׁלֹשָׁ֜ים; read aloud (Qere) reads שְׁלֹשָׁ֜ה (“three”).

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיֵּרְד֨וּ שלשים מֵהַשְּׁלֹשִׁ֣ים רֹ֗אשׁ וַיָּבֹ֤אוּ אֶל־קָצִיר֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֔ד אֶל־מְעָרַ֖ת עֲדֻלָּ֑ם וְחַיַּ֣ת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים חֹנָ֖ה בְּעֵ֥מֶק רְפָאִֽים׃Read aloud as (qere): שְׁלֹשָׁ֜ה
LXX-Br
Καὶ κατέβησαν τρεῖς ἀπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα, καὶ κατέβησαν εἰς Κασὼν πρὸς Δαυὶδ, εἰς τὸ σπήλαιον Ὀδολλάμ· καὶ τάγμα τῶν ἀλλοφύλων, καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι Ῥαφαΐν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Samuel 22:1So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
  • 2 Samuel 5:18Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Samuel 5:22Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Joshua 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
  • 1 Chronicles 14:9Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
  • 1 Chronicles 11:15–19Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of…
  • Isaiah 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Micah 1:15I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

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