2 Samuel 18:7
“Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.”
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2 Samuel 18:7 Context
5And the king commanded Ioab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Deale gently for my sake with the yong man, euen with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gaue all the captaines charge concerning Absalom. 6¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim, 7Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. 8For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured. 9¶ And Absalom met the seruants of Dauid; and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule went vnder the thicke boughs of a great Oke, and his head caught hold of the Oke, and hee was taken vp betweene the heauen and the earth, and the mule that was vnder him, went away.
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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
The people of Israel were defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 men.
- New American Standard Version (1995)