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2 Samuel 18:7

David

5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

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.

8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

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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.
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.

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  • Proverbs 24:21

    My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

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  • 2 Samuel 2:17

    And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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  • 2 Samuel 2:26

    Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

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  • 2 Samuel 15:6

    And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

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  • 2 Chronicles 28:6

    For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

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  • Proverbs 11:21

    Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

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  • 2 Samuel 2:31

    But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

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  • 2 Chronicles 13:16–17

    And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

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