2 Samuel 18:7

Translations

Modern

There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

Traditional

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.

Literal

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.

Latin

Et cæsus est ibi populus Israël ab exercitu David, factaque est plaga magna in die illa, viginti millium.

Original

Hebrew

English

There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Abishai Absalom David Joab

Events

Reign of David

Related verses

Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.
2 Samuel 2:17
The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.
2 Chronicles 13:16–17
So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.
2 Chronicles 28:6
For 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.
2 Samuel 2:26
Then 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 19:41–43
Soon 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 Samuel 2:31
…but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
Proverbs 11:21
Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom 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.

People

David: Anointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Abishai Absalom David Ephraim, Tribe of Gilead (Place) Joab Kings, Books of First and Second Nathan Samuel, Books of First and Second

Topics

Armies: Often Destroyed by Their Enemies Ephraim: A Forest East of the Jordan River: Absalom Killed In

2 Samuel 18:7

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