He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
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He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
And he stoned David with stones and all of the servants of King David, and all of the people and all of the mighty on his right and on his left.
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He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left.
He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
And he cast stones at Dauid, and at all the seruants of King Dauid: and all the people, and all the men of warre were on his right hande, and on his left.
And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people, and all the warriors walked on the right, and on the left side of the king.
and he stoneth David with stones, and all the servants of king David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left.
and he stones David with stones, and all the servants of King David, and all the people, and all the mighty men on his right and on his left.
He threw stones at David and at all of the king's officials, in spite of the army and bodyguards who were on the king's right and left.
And he stoned David with stones and all of the servants of King David, and all of the people and all of the mighty on his right and on his left.
and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
He cast stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
He threw stones at David and all the king's officers, even though the king's men and all his bodyguards surrounded David.
And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל to stone H5619 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל to stone H5619 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 31 words from the Hebrew and 32 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 29 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל בָּֽאֲבָנִים֙ אֶת דָּוִ֔ד וְאֶת כָּל עַבְדֵ֖י הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֑ד וְכָל הָעָם֙ וְכָל הַגִּבֹּרִ֔ים מִימִינ֖וֹ וּמִשְּׂמֹאלֽוֹ
He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λιθάζω ἐν λίθος ὁ δαυίδ καί πᾶς ὁ παῖς ὁ βασιλεύς δαυίδ καί πᾶς ὁ λαός εἰμί καί πᾶς ὁ δυνατός ἐκ δεξιός καί ἐκ εὐώνυμος ὁ βασιλεύς
and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּמְרַגֵם בְּאַבְנַיָא יַת דָוִד וְיַת כָּל עַבְדֵי מַלְכָּא דָוִד וְכָל עַמָא וְכָל גִבָּרַיָא מִימִינֵיהּ וּמִשְׂמָאלֵיהּ:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çâqal (“to stone”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 16:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.