Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Parallel translations
- KJV Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- BSB Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- ESV Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa,
- NKJV Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- NASB Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- NLT Helez from Pelon; Ira son of Ikkesh from Tekoa;
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Cross-references · 3
- 2 Sam 14:2Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
- 1 Chr 11:27–28Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
- 1 Chr 27:9–10The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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