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.


In Context

4 As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by rain.

5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

6 But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands.

7 And 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.

8 These are the names of the valiant men of David. Jesbaham sitting in the chair was the wisest chief among the three, he was like the most tender little worm of the wood, who killed eight hundred men at one onset.

9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three valiant men that were with David when they defied the Philistines, and they were there gathered together to battle.

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 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 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.