27The watchman said, |I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.| The king said, |He is a good man, and comes with good news.|


In Context

24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

25 The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, |If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.| He came closer and closer.

26 The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, |Behold, a man running alone!| The king said, |He also brings news.|

27 The watchman said, |I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.| The king said, |He is a good man, and comes with good news.|

28 Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, |All is well.| He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, |Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!|

29 The king said, |Is it well with the young man Absalom?| Ahimaaz answered, |When Joab sent the king's servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don't know what it was.|

2 Samuel 18:27 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:27The watchman said, "It seems to me that the first one runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok." "He's a good man," the king said. "He comes with good news."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He [is] a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me like the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is a good man: and cometh with good news.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said, I see the running of the foremost like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man; and comes with good news.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good news.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman saith, 'I see the running of the first as the running of Ahimaaz son of Zadok.' And the king saith, 'This is a good man, and with good tidings he cometh.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:27And the watchman said, Me thinks the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and comes with good tidings.