King James Version (KJV)
2 Samuel 23:6
“But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:”
Verse in context — 2 Samuel 23
And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.
But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
But 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.
These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
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David’s reign as king, his triumphs and failures, and God’s covenant with him.
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