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2 Samuel 20:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 8 When they were near the great stone in Gibʹe·on,+ A·maʹsa+ came to meet them. Now Joʹab was wearing his battle clothing, and he had a sword in its sheath strapped to his hip. When he stepped forward, the sword fell out.

2 Samuel 20:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 8 When they were near the great stone in Gibʹe·on,+ A·maʹsa+ came to meet them. Now Joʹab was wearing his battle clothing, and he had a sword in its sheath strapped to his hip. When he stepped forward, the sword fell out.

2 Samuel 20:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 8 They were close by the great stone that is in Gibʹe·on,+ and A·maʹsa+ himself came to meet them. Now Joʹab was girded, clothed with a garment; and upon him there was girded a sword attached to his hip, in its sheath. And he himself came forth, and so it* fell out.

2 Samuel 20:8

The Bible in Living English
- 8 ** They were by the great stone at Gibeon when ʽAmasa came at the head of the people. And Joab was belted with his brigandine (his garment), and over it belted with a sword fastened horizontally to his waist in its sheath; and it came out and fell down.

2 Samuel 20:8

The Emphasized Bible
- 8 When they were by the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa had arrived before them. Now Joab was girded about with his war-coat as his upper garment, and over it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof, and it came out and fell.

2 Samuel 20:8

King James Version
- 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.