2 Samuel 23:7

And the man who comes against them || Is filled with iron and the staff of a spear, || And they are utterly burned with fire || In the cessation.”

Literal Standard Version

In The 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.

In Context

6As for the worthless—All of them [are] driven away as a thorn, || For they are not taken away by hand;

8These [are] the names of the mighty ones whom David has: sitting in the seat [is] the Tachmonite, head of the captains—he [is] Adino, who hardened himself against eight hundred—wounded at one time.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 22:8And the earth shakes and trembles, || Foundations of the heavens are troubled, || And are shaken, for He has wrath!

Isaiah 27:4Fury is not in Me; Who gives Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, || I burn it at once.

Matthew 13:42and will cast them into the furnace of the fire; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

Luke 19:27but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring here and slay before me.”

2 Thessalonians 1:8in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 6:8but that which is bearing thorns and briers [is] disapproved of, and near to cursing, whose end [is] for burning;

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 23:2-8

David's Last Words. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the… Read the whole commentary →

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