Verse 12

Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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  • 1 Sam 26:6 : 6 David then answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" Abishai said, "I will go down with you."
  • 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't need to strike him twice."
  • 2 Sam 3:30 : 30 (Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)
  • 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  • 2 Sam 8:13-14 : 13 David gained renown when he returned after striking down eighteen thousand Arameans in the Valley of Salt. 14 He stationed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became David's subjects. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.
  • 2 Sam 10:10 : 10 He placed the rest of the people under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
  • 2 Sam 10:14 : 14 When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and went back to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 16:9-9 : 9 Then Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!" 10 But the king replied, "What does this have to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord told him to curse David, who can ask, 'Why did you do this?'" 11 David then said to Abishai and all his servants, "Look, my own son who came from my own body is trying to take my life. How much more now this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.
  • 2 Sam 19:21-22 : 21 'For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. But today I have come here as the first of the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.' 22 But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, 'Shouldn't Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the LORD's anointed!'
  • 2 Sam 20:6 : 6 So David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba, son of Bichri, will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord's servants and pursue him quickly, or he may find fortified cities and escape from us."
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai, son of Zeruiah, came to David's aid. He struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, "Never again will you go out with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel."
  • 2 Sam 23:18 : 18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Three. He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and he became as famous as the Three.
  • 2 Kgs 14:7 : 7 He struck down ten thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, renaming it Joktheel, which it is called to this day.
  • 1 Chr 2:16 : 16 Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel—three in total.
  • 1 Chr 11:20 : 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three. He raised his spear against three hundred men and killed them, and so he became as famous as the three.
  • 1 Chr 19:11 : 11 He placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, and they arranged to confront the Ammonites.
  • 2 Chr 25:11 : 11 Amaziah took courage and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he struck down ten thousand men of Seir.
  • Ps 60:1 : 1 For the director, according to 'The Lily of the Testimony,' a Miktam of David, for instruction.
  • Ps 60:8-9 : 8 God has spoken in his holiness: 'I will exult; I will divide Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth.' 9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.