Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

They have gone through the pass, saying,
Geba will be our lodging place.”
Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.

King James Version

They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Holman Bible

They crossed over at the ford, saying,
“We will spend the night at Geba.”
The people of Ramah are trembling;
those at Gibeah of Saul have fled.

International Standard Version

He has crossed over by the pass; his overnight lodging is at Geba. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

A Conservative Version

They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

American Standard Version

they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Amplified


They have gone through the pass, saying,
“Geba will be our lodging place for the night.”
Ramah trembles, and Gibeah [the city] of Saul has fled.

Bible in Basic English

They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.

Darby Translation

They are gone through the pass; they make their lodging at Geba: Ramah trembleth, Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Julia Smith Translation

They passed through the passage the hill a lodging to us; Ramesh trembled; the hill of Saul fled.

King James 2000

They are gone over the pass: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They crossed over [the] pass; Geba [is] a place of overnight lodging for us. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Modern King James verseion

they have gone over the passage; they have bedded down at Geba; Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and go over the fiord. Geba shall be their resting place; Ramah shall be afraid; Gibeah of Saul shall flee away.

NET Bible

They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.

New Heart English Bible

They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

The Emphasized Bible

They have passed over the pare, Geba is his halting-place, - Terror-stricken is Ramah, Gibeah of Saul, hath fled!

Webster

They have gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul hath fled.

World English Bible

They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have gone over the passage, Geba they have made a lodging place, Trembled hath Rama, Gibeah of Saul fled.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

the passage
מעברה מעבר 
Ma`abar 
Usage: 11

מלון 
Malown 
Usage: 8

at Geba
גּבע 
Geba` 
Usage: 18

רמה 
Ramah 
Usage: 36

is afraid
חרד 
Charad 
Usage: 39

גּבעה 
Gib`ah 
Usage: 45

of Saul
שׁאוּל 
Sha'uwl 
Usage: 406

Context Readings

God Will Judge Assyria

28 He is come to Aiath; he is passed unto Migron; in Michmash he shall number his army: 29 They have gone through the pass, saying,
Geba will be our lodging place.”
Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim; Laish cause poor Anathoth to hear thee.



Cross References

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would return to Ramah, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 13:23

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

Joshua 21:17

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,

1 Samuel 11:4

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told the tidings in the ears of the people, and all the people lifted up their voices and wept.

Joshua 18:24-25

Chepharhaammonai, Ophni, and Gaba: twelve cities with their villages;

Judges 19:12-15

And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside here into a city of strangers that is not of the sons of Israel; we will go on to Gibeah.

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul chose three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in Mount Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and of the rest of the people he sent each one to his tent.

1 Samuel 13:16

And Saul and Jonathan, his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

1 Samuel 14:4

And between the passages by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

1 Kings 15:23

The rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless, in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus hath the LORD said; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons, she refused to be comforted regarding her sons, because they perished.

Hosea 5:8

Blow ye the shofar in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah; sound the drum in Bethaven; after thee, O Benjamin.

Hosea 9:9

They have arrived at the depths, they have corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sin.

Hosea 10:9

O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah; there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.

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