2 Samuel 1:10
New Living Translation
10 “So I killed him,” the Amalekite told David, “for I knew he couldn’t live. Then I took his crown and his armband, and I have brought them here to you, my lord.”
Read full chapter
Matthew 7:2
New Living Translation
2 For you will be treated as you treat others.[a] The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.[b]
Read full chapter
Judges 9:54
New Living Translation
54 He quickly said to his young armor bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me! Don’t let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!” So the young man ran him through with his sword, and he died.
Read full chapter
2 Kings 11:12
New Living Translation
12 Then Jehoiada brought out Joash, the king’s son, placed the crown on his head, and presented him with a copy of God’s laws.[a] They anointed him and proclaimed him king, and everyone clapped their hands and shouted, “Long live the king!”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 11:12 Or a copy of the covenant.
Lamentations 5:16
New Living Translation
16 The garlands have[a] fallen from our heads.
Weep for us because we have sinned.
Footnotes
- 5:16 Or The crown has.
2 Samuel 12:30
New Living Translation
30 David removed the crown from the king’s head,[a] and it was placed on his own head. The crown was made of gold and set with gems, and it weighed seventy-five pounds.[b] David took a vast amount of plunder from the city.
Read full chapter
1 Samuel 31:4-5
New Living Translation
4 Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.”
But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. 5 When his armor bearer realized that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword and died beside the king.
Read full chapter
1 Samuel 22:18
New Living Translation
18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You do it.” So Doeg the Edomite turned on them and killed them that day, eighty-five priests in all, still wearing their priestly garments.
Read full chapter
Judges 1:7
New Living Translation
7 Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Read full chapterHoly Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.