The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
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The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 18:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;
- 2 Samuel 2:17 The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
- 2 Samuel 2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
- 2 Samuel 2:31 But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
- 2 Samuel 15:6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 19:41-43 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?” All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?” The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 13:16-17 The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- Proverbs 11:21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 18:7 Where the people of Israel were slain…
2Sa 18:7 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].
Ver. 7. Where the people of Israel were slain.] For a just reward of their unjust rebellion: besides a great sort of them who having tasted of the sweetness of war, dulce bellum inexpertis, threw down their arms, and ran home ad beatos rastros, benedictura aratrum, sanctamque stivam, {a} as the divine chronologer saith of the seditious boors of Germany beaten by the princes, together with Munzer, their general, who was taken and executed according to his deserts.
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{a} Bucholc.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The people of Israel, i.e. the soldiers of Absalom;…
The people of Israel, i.e. the soldiers of Absalom; so called, partly to note that all Israel (some few excepted) were engaged in this rebellion, which made David’s deliverance more glorious and remarkable; and partly in opposition to David’s men, who, as to the main body, or most considerable part, were of the tribe of Judah, or had followed him from Judah.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Where the people of Israel were slain before the…
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David,.... That is, the people of Israel that were under Absalom, these were beaten by David's army:
and there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men; including both those that fell in the field of battle, and that were slain in the pursuit; and this is to be understood only of Absalom's party.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Twenty thousand men.] Whether these were slain…
Verse 7. Twenty thousand men.] Whether these were slain on the field of battle, or whether they were reckoned with those slain in the wood of Ephraim, we know not.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the people of Israel were slain--This designation, together with…
the people of Israel were slain--This designation, together with the immense slaughter mentioned later, shows the large extent to which the people were enlisted in this unhappy civil contest.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Twenty thousand — Surely the multitude that followed…
7. Twenty thousand — Surely the multitude that followed Absalom must have been like the sand of the sea. 2Sa_17:11.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) Twenty Thousand.—This number seems large, but we really…
(7) Twenty Thousand.—This number seems large, but we really know nothing of the size of the forces engaged on either side; and if the phrase “that day” be taken, as often, with sufficient latitude to include the whole campaign of which this battle was the culmination, there is nothing surprising in the destruction of 20,000 men. Of the human causes of the victory nothing is told. We may assume that the advantage of thorough military organisation and generalship was on David’s side; but, in addition to this, was the vast power of the right, the prestige of law and authority.
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