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2 Samuel 20:13

BichriJoabSheba

11 One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”

12 But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.

As soon as Amasa’s body was removed from the road, all the men went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

14 Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel-beth-maacah and through the entire region of the Berites, who gathered together and followed him.

15 And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,

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BSB
As soon as Amasa’s body was removed from the road, all the men went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.
KJV
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
WEB
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
ASV
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
DARBY
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri,
BLB
When he was removed from the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.
ÅB
Da han var ført bort fra landeveien, gikk hver mann forbi og fulgte Joab for å sette etter Seba, Bikris sønn.
OTB
Da han var fjernet fra veien, passerte alle etter Joab for å forfølge Sjeba, sønn av Bikri.
B1930
Da han var ført bort fra landeveien, gikk hver mann forbi og fulgte Joab for å sette efter Seba, Bikris sønn.

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  • 1 Samuel 6:12

    And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

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  • Jeremiah 31:21

    “Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.

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  • Mark 10:46

    Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.

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  • Isaiah 7:3

    Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,

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  • Judges 21:19

    “But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

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  • Isaiah 62:10

    Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

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  • 2 Samuel 20:12–13

    But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.

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  • Proverbs 16:17

    The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.

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