7But 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.


In Context

4 He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass'springeth out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.

5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all my desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.

6 But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;

7 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.

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.

9 And 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 that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

2 Samuel 23:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:7Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:7But 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:7And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:7But 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7But 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7And 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:7But 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.