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.


In Context

4 And he shall be as the light or the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.

5 Although my house be not so before God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For this is all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make it not to grow.

6 But the sons of Belial are all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;

7 And 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.

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Joseb-Bassebeth, Tachkemonite the chief of the captains: he was Adino the Eznite; he fought against eight hundred, slain by him at one time.

9 And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite: he was one of the three mighty men with David, when they had defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone up.

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 American Standard 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 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.