2 Samuel 23:7
Good News Translation
You must use an iron tool or a spear; they will be burned completely.

New Revised Standard Version
to touch them one uses an iron bar or the shaft of a spear. And they are entirely consumed in fire on the spot.

Contemporary English Version
but with a sharp spear and are burned on the spot.

New American Bible
One wishing to touch them must be armed with iron or the shaft of a spear. They must be utterly consumed by fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

fenced [heb] filled

2 Samuel 22:8-10 The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them. . . .

Isaiah 27:4 There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Matthew 3:10-12 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire. . . .

Matthew 13:42 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 19:14,27 But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us. . . .

John 15:6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him

Hebrews 6:8 But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.

Context
David's Last Song
6But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands. 7And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.
Cross References
Matthew 3:10
For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 13:30
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

Hebrews 6:8
But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.

Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

Ezekiel 2:6
And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid of their words: for thou art among unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest with scorpions. Fear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for they are a provoking house.

2 Samuel 23:6
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