2 Samuel 1:15

WEB

¹⁵David called one of the young men and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.

KJV

¹⁵And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

BSB

¹⁵Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.

FBV

¹⁵David called over one of his men and said, “Go ahead, kill him!” So the man cut the Amalekite down and killed him.

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1 Kings 2:34

³⁴Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

Proverbs 11:18

¹⁸Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Judges 8:20

²⁰He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.

¹⁰when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. ¹¹How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?” ¹²David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

1 Kings 2:25

²⁵King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

Job 5:12

¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

1 Kings 2:46

⁴⁶So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

1 Samuel 22:17-18

¹⁷The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.

¹⁸The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.