2 Samuel 18:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

So the people went out into the fielde to meete Israel, and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim:

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  • Josh 17:18 : 18 Therefore the mountaine shall be thine: for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it downe: and the endes of it shall be thine, and thou shalt cast out the Canaanites, though they haue yron charets, and though they be strong.
  • Josh 17:15 : 15 Ioshua then answered them, If thou be much people, get thee vp to the wood, & cut trees for thy selfe there in the lande of the Perizzites, and of the gyants, if mount Ephraim be too narowe for thee.
  • Judg 12:4-6 : 4 Then Iphtah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are runnagates of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 Also the Gileadites tooke the passages of Iorden before the Ephraimites, and when the Ephraimites that were escaped, saide, Let me passe, then the men of Gilead said vnto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay, 6 Then said they vnto him, Say nowe Shibboleth: and he said, Sibboleth: for he could not so pronounce: then they tooke him, and slewe him at the passages of Iorden: & there fel at that time of the Ephraimites two & fourtie thousand.

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  • 2 Sam 18:7-10
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    7Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid: so there was a great slaughter that day, euen of twentie thousande.

    8For the battel was skattered ouer all the countrey: and the wood deuoured much more people that day, then did the sworde.

    9Nowe Absalom met the seruants of Dauid, and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule came vnder a great thicke oke: and his head caught holde of the oke, and he was taken vp betweene the heauen and the earth: and the mule that was vnder him went away.

    10And one that sawe it, tolde Ioab, saying, Beholde, I sawe Absalom hanged in an oke.

  • 2 Sam 18:4-5
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    4Then the King said vnto them, What seemeth you best, that I will doe. So the King stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreths and by thousands.

    5And the King commanded Ioab and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Entreate the yong man Absalom gently for my sake; all the people heard whe the King gaue al the captaines charge concerning Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 19:8-9
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    8Then the King arose, and sate in the gate: and they tolde vnto all the people, saying, Beholde, the King doeth sit in the gate: and all the people came before the King: for Israel had fled euery man to his tent.

    9Then all the people were at strife thorowout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The King saued vs out of the hand of our enemies, and he deliuered vs out of the hande of the Philistims, & nowe he is fled out of the lande for Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-17
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    14Then saide Ioab, I will not thus tary with thee; he tooke three dartes in his hande, and thrust them through Absalom, while he was yet aliue in the middes of the oke.

    15And tenne seruants that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slewe him.

    16Then Ioab blewe the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.

    17And they tooke Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and layed a mightie great heape of stones vpon him: and all Israel fled euery one to his tent.

  • 2 Sam 17:26
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    26So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Sam 14:21-22
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    21Moreouer, the Ebrewes that were with the Philistims beforetime, and were come with them into all partes of the hoste, euen they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Ionathan.

    22Also all the men of Israel which had hid themselues in mount Ephraim, when they heard, that the Philistims were fled, they followed after them in the battell.

  • 2 Sam 19:1-3
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    1And it was tolde Ioab, Behold, the King weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

    2Therefore the victorie of that day was turned into mourning to all the people: for the people heard say that day, The King soroweth for his sonne.

    3And the people went that day into the citie secretly, as people confounded hide them selues when they flee in battell.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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    24Then Dauid came to Mahanaim; Absalom passed ouer Iorden, he, and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
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    17And the battel was exceeding sore that same day: for Abner and the men of Israel fell before the seruants of Dauid.

  • 1 Sam 17:21
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    21For Israel & the Philistims had put themselues in araie, armie against armie.

  • Judg 20:20
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    20And the men of Israel went out to battell against Beniamin, & the men of Israel put themselues in aray to fight against the beside Gibeah.

  • 2 Sam 15:13-14
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    13Then came a messenger to Dauid, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom.

    14Then Dauid sayd vnto all his seruants that were with him at Ierusalem, Vp, and let vs flee: for we shall not escape from Absalom: make speede to depart, lest he come suddenly and take vs, and bring euill vpon vs, and smite the citie with the edge of the sworde.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
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    9Behold, he is hid now in some caue, or in some place: and though some of them be ouerthrowen at the first, yet the people shall heare, and say, The people that follow Absalom, be ouerthrowen.

  • Judg 20:14
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    14But ye children of Beniamin gathered them selues together out of the cities vnto Gibeah, to come out and fight against the children of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 18:2
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    2And Dauid sent foorth the third part of the people vnder the hand of Ioab, and the thirde part vnder the hand of Abishai Ioabs brother the sonne of Zeruiah: and the other third part vnder the hand of Ittai the Gittite; the King said vnto the people, I will go with you my selfe also.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1Nowe at that time the Philistims assembled their bandes and armie to fight with Israel: therfore Achish said to Dauid, Be sure, thou shalt go out with me to the battel, thou, and thy men.

  • 2 Sam 16:15
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    15And Absalom, & all the people, the men of Israel, came to Ierusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    19(Then Saul and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistims)

  • 1 Chr 19:14
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    14So Ioab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites vnto the battel, and they fled before him.

  • 1 Chr 19:17
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    17And when it was shewed Dauid, he gathered all Israel, and went ouer Iorden, and came vnto them, & put him selfe in aray against them: And when Dauid had put him selfe in battel aray to meete the Aramites, they fought with him.

  • Judg 12:4
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    4Then Iphtah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are runnagates of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1Then the Philistims fought against Israel: & the men of Israel fled before the Philistims, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 10:13
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    13Then Ioab, and the people that was with him, ioyned in battel with the Aramites, who fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 4:1-2
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    1And Samuel spake vnto all Israel: and Israel went out against the Philistims to battel and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistims pitched in Aphek.

    2And the Philistims put themselues in aray against Israel: and when they ioyned the battell, Israel was smitten downe before the Philistims: who slewe of the armie in the fielde about foure thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 15:6
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    6And on this maner did Absalom to al Israel, that came to the King for iudgement: so Absalom stale the hearts of the men of Israel.

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    25Also the second day Beniamin came forth to meete them out of Gibeah, and slewe downe to the grounde of the children of Israel againe eighteene thousand men: all they could handle the sword.

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    34Then Absalom fled: and the yong man that kept the watch, lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behinde him.

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    1Now the Philistims fought against Israel, & the me of Israel fled away from ye Philistims, and they fell downe wounded in mount Gilboa.

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    2And Absalom rose vp early, & stoode hard by the entring in of the gate: and euery man that had any matter, & came to the King for iudgement, him did Absalom call vnto him, and sayde, Of what citie art thou? And he answered, Thy seruant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

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    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battel, Beniamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirtie persons: for they said, Surely they are striken downe before vs, as in the first battell.

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    2And Saul, and the men of Israel assembled, and pitched in the valley of Elah, and put themselues in battell araie to meete the Philistims.

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    8Againe the warre began, & Dauid went out & fought with the Philistims, and slew them with a great slaughter, and they fled from him.

  • 2 Sam 15:11
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    11And with Absalom went two hundreth men out of Ierusalem, that were called: & they went in their simplicitie, knowing nothing.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8And when Dauid heard, he sent Ioab and all the hoste of the valiant men.

  • Judg 20:42
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    42Therefore they fled before the men of Israel vnto the way of the wildernesse, but the battell ouertooke them: also they which came out of the cities, slew them among them.