2 Samuel 23:7
World English Bible (WEB)
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.”
In context
5 Isn’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. Won’t he make it grow?
6 But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
7 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.”
8 These 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.
9 After 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.
2 Samuel 23:7 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.”
- KJV King James Version
- But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the man who cometh against them Is filled with iron and the staff of a spear, And with fire they are utterly burnt In the cessation.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.