2 Kings 6:22 Cross References - DouayRheims

²² And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

²² I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.

¹¹ If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute. ¹² But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it. ¹³ And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword, ¹⁴ Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee. ¹⁵ So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession. ¹⁶ But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

¹² And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,

⁸ And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria. ⁹ At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven. ¹⁰ Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done: for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God. ¹¹ But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth over you. ¹² Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from the war. ¹³ And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel. ¹⁴ So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken, before the princes and all the multitude. ¹⁵ And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.

^{6 (44:7)} For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.

²¹ If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink: ²² For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will reward thee.

⁷ And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will save them by the Lord, their God: and I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

¹⁸ And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

²⁰ But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.