2 Kings 6:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But the king of Syria warred against Israel, and toke counsell with his seruauntes, and sayde: In such and such a place shalbe my campe.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:1 : 1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his hoast together, hauing thirtie & two kinges with him, and horses and charets: and went vp and besieged Samaria, & warred against it.
  • 1 Kgs 20:23 : 23 And the seruauntes of the king of Syria sayde vnto him: The gods of the hilles are their gods, and therefore they had the better of vs: but let vs fight against them in the playne, and for what ye will we shall haue the better of them.
  • 1 Kgs 20:34 : 34 And he said vnto him: The cities which my father toke from thy father, I will restore agayne, and thou shalt make streates for thee in Damasco, as my father dyd in Samaria: And I wil make an appoyntment with thee, & send the away. And so he made an appoyntment with him, and sent him away.
  • 1 Kgs 22:31 : 31 But the king of Syria commaunded the thirtie and two captaynes that had rule ouer his charettes, saying: Fight neither with small nor great, saue onely against the king of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 6:24 : 24 After this it chaunced, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered al his hoast and went vp, and besieged Samaria.
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll, so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise. 13 He compasseth the wise in their owne craftinesse, & maketh foolishe the counsell of the wicked.
  • Prov 20:18 : 18 Thorowe counsayle, the thinges that men deuise are made strong: and with good aduise take warre in hande.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wysdome, there is no vnderstanding, there is no counsayle against the Lorde.
  • Isa 7:5-7 : 5 Because that the Syrian, Ephraim, and Romelies sonne haue wickedly conspired against thee, 6 Saying, we wyll go vp against Iuda, vexe them, and bryng them vnder vs, and set a kyng there, euen the sonne of Tabel: 7 Thus saith the Lorde God thereto, It shal not so go foorth, neither so come to passe.
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Take your counsell together, yet shall your counsell come to naught: determine the matter, yet shall it not prosper: for God is with vs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 6:9-15
    7 verses
    84%

    9And the man of God sent vnto the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou go not ouer to such a place, for there the Syrians are lurkyng.

    10Therfore the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God tolde him and warned him of, and saued him selfe from it, not once, nor twyse.

    11And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled for this thing, and he called for his seruauntes, and said vnto them: Wil ye not shewe me, whiche of our men betrayght me to the king of Israel?

    12And one of his seruauntes sayde, None my lorde O king: But Elisa the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel, yea euen the wordes that thou speakest in thy priuie chamber.

    13He sayde: Go, and spie where he is, that I may sende and fet him. And one told him, saying: Behold, he is in Dothan.

    14Therefore sent he thyther horses and charets, and a mightie hoast: and they came by night, and compassed the citie about.

    15And when the seruaunt of the man of God rose vp early to go out: beholde, there was an hoast rounde about the towne with horses & charets: And his seruaunt sayde vnto him, Alas maister, what shall we do?

  • 2 Chr 18:30
    78%

    30But the king of Syria had commaunded the captaynes of the charets that were with him, saying: See that ye fight not against small or great, saue against the king of Israel only.

  • 2 Kgs 7:12
    77%

    12And the king arose in the night, & sayde vnto his seruauntes: I wil shewe you nowe what the Syrians haue done vnto vs: They knowe that we be hungrie, and therefore are they gone out of the pauillions to hyde them selues in the fielde, saying: When they come out of the citie, we shall catche them alyue, and get in to the citie.

  • 2 Kgs 7:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5And they rose vp in the twylight to go to the hoast of the Syrians: And when they were come to the vtmost part of the hoast of Syria, behold there was no man there.

    6For the Lorde had made the hoast of the Syrians to heare a noyse of charets, & a noyse of horses, & the noyse of a great hoast: Insomuch that they sayde one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hyred against vs the kinges of the Hethites, and the kinges of the Egyptians, to come vpon vs.

    7Wherfore they arose, and fled in the twylight, and left their tentes, their horses, and their asses, and the fielde which they had pitched, euen as it was, and fled for their lyues.

  • 1 Kgs 20:21-29
    9 verses
    76%

    21And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and charettes, & with a great slaughter slue he the Syrians.

    22(And there came a prophete to the king of Israel, and said vnto him: Go foorth, and play the man, be wyse, & take heede what thou doest: for when the yere is gone about, the king of Syria will come vp against thee.)

    23And the seruauntes of the king of Syria sayde vnto him: The gods of the hilles are their gods, and therefore they had the better of vs: but let vs fight against them in the playne, and for what ye will we shall haue the better of them.

    24And this do: Take the kinges away euery man out of his place, & put dukes in their roomes:

    25And do thou number thee an hoast, lyke the hoast that thou hast lost, such horses and suche charets, and we will fight against them in the plaine, and thou shalt see vs get the better of the. And he hearkened vnto their voyce, and dyd euen so.

    26And it fortuned, that after the yere was gone about, Benhadad numbred the Syrians, and went vp to Aphec to fight against Israel.

    27And the children of Israel were numbred, & with their whole number went they against them, and the children of Israel pitched before them lyke two litle flockes of kiddes: but the Syrians filled the countrey.

    28And there came a man of God, and sayd vnto the king of Israel, thus sayth the Lorde: Because the Syrians haue sayd, the Lorde is but God of the hilles, and not God of the valleys: therfore wil I deliuer all this great multitude into thyne hande, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

    29And they pitched one ouer against the other seuen dayes: and it came to passe, that in the seuenth day the battaile was ioyned, and the children of Israel slue of the Syrians an hundred thousande footemen in one day.

  • 2 Kgs 6:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23And he prepared a great refection for them, and when they had eaten and drunke, he sent them away, & they went to their maister: And so the souldiours of Syria came no more into the lande of Israel.

    24After this it chaunced, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered al his hoast and went vp, and besieged Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 20:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his hoast together, hauing thirtie & two kinges with him, and horses and charets: and went vp and besieged Samaria, & warred against it.

    2And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the citie, and sayde vnto him, thus saith Benhadad.

  • 1 Kgs 22:31
    74%

    31But the king of Syria commaunded the thirtie and two captaynes that had rule ouer his charettes, saying: Fight neither with small nor great, saue onely against the king of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 22:6
    74%

    6And then the king of Israel gathered the prophetes together, vpon a foure hundred men, & sayde vnto them: Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battayle, or shall I let it alone? And they sayde, Go vp: for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the handes of the king.

  • 2 Chr 22:5
    73%

    5And he walked after their counsel, and went with Iehoram sonne of Ahab king of Israel, to fight against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth in Gilead: and the Syrians smote Iehoram.

  • 1 Kgs 22:3
    73%

    3(And the king of Israel sayde vnto his seruauntes: Know ye not that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we sit still, and take it not out of the hande of the king of Syria?)

  • 2 Sam 10:15
    73%

    15And whe the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered them together.

  • 1 Chr 19:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers and set out the Syrians that were beyond the riuer: and Sophach the captayne of the hoast of Hadarezer went before them.

    17And it was told Dauid: and he gathered all Israel, and went together ouer Iordane, and came and set vpon them: And when Dauid had put hym selfe in aray against the Syrians, they fought with him.

  • 2 Kgs 8:7
    72%

    7And Elisa came to Damascon, & Benhadad the king of Syria was sycke: And one tolde him, saying, The man of God is come hyther.

  • Isa 7:5
    72%

    5Because that the Syrian, Ephraim, and Romelies sonne haue wickedly conspired against thee,

  • 2 Kgs 8:28
    72%

    28And he went with Ioram the sonne of Ahab, to warre against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Ioram.

  • 2 Sam 8:6
    71%

    6And put souldiers in Syria Damascon: And the Syrians became seruautes to Dauid, and brought giftes, and the Lorde saued Dauid, in all that he went vnto.

  • 1 Kgs 20:6
    71%

    6I will therfore send my seruauntes vnto thee to morowe this time: and they shall searche thyne house, & the houses of thy seruauntes, and whatsoeuer is pleasaunt in thyne eyes, they shall take it in their handes, and bring it away.

  • 2 Chr 25:7
    71%

    7And there came a man of God to him, and sayde, O king, let not the armie of Israel come with thee: for the Lorde is not with Israel, to wit with al the children of Ephraim.

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
    71%

    21And the king of Israel sayde vnto Elisa when he sawe them: My father, shall I smyte them, shall I smyte them?

  • 2 Kgs 6:7
    71%

    7Therfore sayde he: Take it vp. And he stretched out his hand, and toke it vp.

  • 2 Chr 18:5
    71%

    5Therfore the king of Israel gathered together of prophetes foure hundred men, & saide vnto them: Shall we go to Ramoth in Gilead to fight, or should I ceasse? And they saide: Go vp, & God shall deliuer it into the kinges hand.

  • 1 Kgs 22:36
    71%

    36And ther wet a proclamation throughout the hoast about the goyng downe of the sunne, saying: Euery man to his citie, and to his owne countrey.

  • 2 Kgs 5:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And the king of Syria saide: Go thy way thither, and I wyll send a letter vnto the king of Israel. And he departed, and toke with him ten talentes of siluer, and sixe thousand peeces of golde, and ten chaunges of raymentes,

    6And brought the letter to the king of Israel, conteyning this tenour. Now, when this letter is come vnto thee, beholde I haue therewith sent Naaman my seruaunt to thee, that thou mayest ridde him of his leprosie.

  • 2 Chr 16:7
    71%

    7At that time Hanani the sear came to Asa king of Iuda, and saide vnto him: Because thou hast trusted in the king of Syria, and not rather put thy trust in the Lord thy God, therfore is the hoast of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hande.

  • 2 Kgs 13:5
    71%

    5(And the Lord gaue Israel a deliuerer, so that they went out from vnder the subiection of the Syrians: And the children of Israel dwelt in their tentes as before tyme.

  • 2 Kgs 7:10
    70%

    10And so they came, and called vnto the porter of the citie, and told them, saying: We came to the pauillions of the Syrians, and see there was no man there, neither voyce of man, but horses & asses tyed, and the tentes were euen as they were wont to be.

  • 2 Sam 10:17
    70%

    17And when it was shewed Dauid, he gathered al Israel together, & passed ouer Iordane, and came to Helam: And the Syrians set them selues in aray against Dauid, and fought with him.

  • 1 Chr 19:10
    70%

    10When Ioab also saw that the frunt of the battayle was against him before and behind, he chose out of al the chosen men of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians.

  • 2 Sam 10:19
    70%

    19And when all the kinges that were seruauntes to Hadarezer, saw that they fel before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and serued them: and so the Syrians feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more.