2 Samuel 18:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ The men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ [Absalom's] men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter that day of 20,000 men.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

⁷ The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s soldiers. A great slaughter of twenty thousand men took place that day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And the people of Israel were cut down in that place by the army of David. And a great slaughter occurred on that day: twenty thousand men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army: and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:7 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:6

Thus Absalom did to every Israelite who came to the king for judgment, so Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 18:6

So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18:8

The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest claimed more victims that day than the sword.

2 Samuel 2:17

The battle was very fierce that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten by the servants of David.

2 Samuel 2:26

Then Abner called to Joab, “Is the sword to keep devouring forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you order your people to turn from the pursuit of their kinsmen?”

2 Samuel 2:31

But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin three hundred sixty of Abner’s men.

2 Chronicles 28:6

Pekah son of Remaliah killed one hundred twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all of them valiant warriors, because they had abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

Psalm 144:10

the one who gives victory to kings, who rescues his servant David.

Proverbs 11:21

Be assured, the wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will escape.

Proverbs 24:21

My child, fear the Lord and the king, and do not disobey either of them,