3and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.


In Context

1 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;

2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

3 and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.

4 And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

5 And Absalom said, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and we will hear also what he says.

2 Samuel 17:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:3and bring all the people back to you. The death of the man you seek will mean the return of all; all the people will be unharmed."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man: for thou seekest but one man: and all the people shall be in peace.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:3and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned:'so all the people shall be in peace.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:3and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:3And I will bring back all the people to thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:3and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:3and I bring back all the people unto thee — as the turning back of the whole is the man whom thou art seeking — all the people are peace.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.