1 Chronicles 18:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Abishai son of Zeruiah killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Also Abishai son of Zeruiah slew 18,000 of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.

Common English Bible

¹² Abishai, Zeruiah’s son, struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Salt Valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Truly, Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of the Salt Pits.

1 Chronicles 18:12 Cross References

Psalm 60:1

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!

2 Chronicles 25:11

Amaziah strengthened himself and led out his people; he went to the Valley of Salt and struck down ten thousand men of Seir.

1 Chronicles 19:11

the rest of his troops he put in the charge of his brother Abishai, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.

1 Chronicles 11:20

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty. With his spear he fought against three hundred and killed them and won a name beside the Three.

1 Chronicles 2:16

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

2 Samuel 10:10

the rest of the troops he put in the charge of his brother Abishai, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.

1 Samuel 26:6

Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

2 Kings 14:7

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm; he called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.

2 Samuel 23:18

Now Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty. With his spear he fought against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the Three.

2 Samuel 21:17

But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You shall not go out with us to battle any longer, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel.”

2 Samuel 20:6

David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities for himself and escape from us.”

2 Samuel 10:14

When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 7:13

He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

2 Samuel 3:30

So Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”

1 Kings 11:15

For when David was destroying Edom and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the dead, he killed every male in Edom

1 Chronicles 18:11

these also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

1 Chronicles 18:13

He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.

Psalm 60:2

You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.