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2 Samuel 23:7

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But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.
They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

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2 Samuel 23:7 in other translations

But the man that toucheth them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.

2 Samuel 23:7 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 23:7 in context

  1. 5Isn’t my house so with God?
    Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
    ordered in all things, and sure,
    for it is all my salvation, and all my desire,
    although he doesn’t make it grow.
  2. 6But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away,
    because they can’t be taken with the hand,
  3. 7But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear.
    They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
  4. 8These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.
  5. 9After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.