2 Samuel 18:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.”
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“There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day--twenty thousand;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Samuel 18:7 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 2:17The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.
- 2 Samuel 2:26Then 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?”
- 2 Samuel 2:31but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
- 2 Samuel 15:6Absalom 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.
- 2 Samuel 19:41Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
- 2 Chronicles 13:16So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.
- 2 Chronicles 28:6For 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.
- Proverbs 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
- Proverbs 24:21My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.
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