2 Samuel 18:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 2:17 : 17 And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
  • 2 Sam 2:31 : 31 But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men
  • 2 Sam 15:6 : 6 And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 19:41-43 : 41 Then the men of Israel came to the king and said, Why have our countrymen of Judah taken you away in secret and come over Jordan with the king and all his family, because all his people are David's men? 42 And all the men of Judah gave this answer to the men of Israel, Because the king is our near relation: why then are you angry about this? have we taken any of the king's food, or has he given us any offering? 43 And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 13:16-17 : 16 And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands. 17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.
  • 2 Chr 28:6 : 6 For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.
  • Prov 11:21 : 21 Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 18:8
    83%

    8 And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.

  • 2 Sam 18:6
    81%

    6 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.

  • 1 Chr 18:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

    5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand Aramaeans.

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20 And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

    21 Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    79%

    5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
    78%

    10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.

  • Judg 20:25
    78%

    25 And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
    78%

    17 And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.

  • 1 Chr 19:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17 And word of this was given to David; and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam and put his forces in position against them. And when David's forces were in position against the Aramaeans, the fight was started.

    18 And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven thousand Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and put to death Shophach, the captain of the army.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    77%

    18 And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    77%

    8 And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • Judg 20:44-46
    3 verses
    76%

    44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.

    45 And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.

    46 So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    76%

    8 These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

  • Judg 20:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34 And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.

    35 Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    76%

    12 And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,

  • 2 Sam 8:13
    76%

    13 And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29
    76%

    29 Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39 The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.

  • Judg 20:17
    75%

    17 And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    75%

    17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    75%

    15 And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

  • Judg 20:2
    75%

    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    75%

    15 And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    75%

    20 And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
    74%

    2 And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    74%

    31 But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    74%

    9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    74%

    5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    74%

    15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
    74%

    1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

  • Judg 20:31
    74%

    31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

  • 2 Chr 28:6
    74%

    6 For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    73%

    15 So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    73%

    22 And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

  • Judg 20:10
    73%

    10 And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    73%

    17 Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    73%

    8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • 1 Sam 31:1
    73%

    1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
    73%

    14 And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    73%

    52 And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 21:11
    73%

    11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    73%

    19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    73%

    7 And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.