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2 Samuel 20:12

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20:12Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa18 stopped, the man19 pulled him20 away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

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  1. 18 Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 19 Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. 20 Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now Amasa had been writhing in his blood in the middle of the highway, and the man had seen that all the troops stopped. So he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him because he realized that all those who encountered Amasa were stopping.

NLTNew Living Translation

But Amasa lay in his blood in the middle of the road, and Joab’s man saw that everyone was stopping to stare at him. So he pulled him off the road into a field and threw a cloak over him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now Amasa was wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood there, he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.