2 Samuel 18:7
5 Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” And all the people heard the king’s orders to each of the commanders regarding Absalom.
6 So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
8 The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
9 Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Der ble Israels folk slått av Davids menn, og det ble et stort mannefall der den dag - tyve tusen mann.
- OTB
- Der ble Israels folk beseiret av Davids tjenere, og nedslaktningen der den dagen var stor—tjue tusen mann.
- B1930
- Der blev Israels folk slått av Davids menn, og det blev et stort mannefall der den dag - tyve tusen mann.
- BSB
- There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
- KJV
- Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
- WEB
- The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
- ASV
- And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
- DARBY
- And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.
- BLB
- And the people of Israel were struck there before the faces of the servants of David, and there took place that day a great slaughter of twenty thousand.
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Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.
Les i sammenheng2 Samuel 2:17
The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.
Les i sammenheng2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
Les i sammenheng2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
Les i sammenheng2 Chronicles 28:6
For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Les i sammenhengProverbs 11:21
Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
Les i sammenheng2 Samuel 2:31
but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
Les i sammenheng2 Chronicles 13:16–17
So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.
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