pit

Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it wil come to passe when some of them bee ouerthrowen at the first, that whosoeuer heareth it, wil say, There is a slaughter among the people that followe Absalom.

1611 marginal noteHeb. fallen.

And they tooke Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and layd a very great heape of stones vpon him: and all Israel fled euery one to his tent.

And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many actes, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: hee went downe also, and slewe a Lyon in the middest of a pit in time of snow.

1611 marginal noteHeb. great of acts.

1611 marginal noteHebr. lion of God.

And hee said, Take them aliue. And they tooke them aliue, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, euen two and fourty men; neither left he any of them.

Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, the sonne of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts: he slue two Lyon-like men of Moab, also he went downe and slue a Lyon in a pit in a snowy day.

1611 marginal noteHeb. great of deeds.

Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend.

1611 marginal noteHebr. ye cause to fall vpon.

They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Hee keepeth backe his soule from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from passing by the sword.

Then hee is gracious vnto him, and sayth, Deliuer him from going downe to the pit; I haue found a ransome.

1611 marginal noteOr, an atonement.

Hee will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

1611 marginal noteOr, he hath deliuered my soule &c. and my life.