18 and (A)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over[a] the (B)Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:18 Compare 20:23, 1 Chronicles 18:17, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks was over

18 Benaiah(A) son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites(B) and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:18 Or were chief officials (see Septuagint and Targum; see also 1 Chron. 18:17)

18 And (A)all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from (B)Gath, passed on before the king.

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18 All his men marched past him, along with all the Kerethites(A) and Pelethites; and all the six hundred Gittites who had accompanied him from Gath marched before the king.

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And there went out after him Joab's men and the (A)Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

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So Joab’s men and the Kerethites(A) and Pelethites and all the mighty warriors went out under the command of Abishai. They marched out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bikri.

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23 (A)Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

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David’s Officials

23 Joab(A) was over Israel’s entire army; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites;

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38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, (A)and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon.

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38 So Zadok(A) the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites(B) and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.(C)

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44 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the (A)Cherethites and the Pelethites. And they had him ride on the king's mule.

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44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and they have put him on the king’s mule,

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17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were the (A)chief officials in the service of the king.

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17 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites;(A) and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.

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16 therefore thus says the Lord God, (A)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off (B)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

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16 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines,(A) and I will wipe out the Kerethites(B) and destroy those remaining along the coast.(C)

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Woe to (A)you inhabitants of the seacoast,
    you nation of (B)the Cherethites!
(C)The word of the Lord is against you,
    (D)O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
    and I will destroy you (E)until no inhabitant is left.

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Woe to you who live by the sea,
    you Kerethite(A) people;
the word of the Lord is against you,(B)
    Canaan, land of the Philistines.
He says, “I will destroy you,
    and none will be left.”(C)

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