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2 Samuel 23:6
2 Samuel 23:6 is verse 6 of 2 Samuel chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
King James Version
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
World English Bible
But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.
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2 Samuel 23:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
5 Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
6 But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
8 These are the names of David’s mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
Deuteronomy 13:13that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Song of Solomon 2:2Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
Isaiah 33:12The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
Ezekiel 2:6But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.