2 Samuel 18:7 - Plain English Version

^7-8 They chased each other in the bush, and they attacked each other with spears and bows and arrows. David’s mob beat Absalom’s mob and killed lots of them dead. But even more soldiers died from things in the bush. 20,000 men died on that day.

More versions

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.

2 Samuel 18:7 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:6

Absalom used to do that whenever one of the Israel mob came to talk to David, to ask for help. So that’s the way he got the Israel mob to like him. They didn’t like his father David any more.

2 Samuel 18:6

David’s mob went away from the town, and they met the Israel mob in the bush at a place called Ephraim.