2 Samuel 18:7

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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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  • 2 Sam 2:17 : 17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
  • 2 Sam 2:31 : 31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
  • 2 Sam 15:6 : 6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 19:41-43 : 41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan? 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift? 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 13:16-17 : 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. 17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
  • 2 Chr 28:6 : 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
  • Prov 11:21 : 21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 18:8
    83%

    8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

  • 2 Sam 18:6
    81%

    6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

  • 1 Chr 18:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.

    5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

    21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    79%

    5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
    78%

    10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

  • Judg 20:25
    78%

    25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
    78%

    17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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

    17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

    18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    77%

    18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    77%

    8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

  • Judg 20:44-46
    3 verses
    76%

    44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

    45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

    46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    76%

    8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

  • Judg 20:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

    35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    76%

    12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

  • 2 Sam 8:13
    76%

    13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29
    76%

    29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

  • Judg 20:17
    75%

    17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    75%

    17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    75%

    15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

  • Judg 20:2
    75%

    2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    75%

    15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    75%

    20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
    74%

    2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    74%

    31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    74%

    9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    74%

    5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    74%

    15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
    74%

    1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

  • Judg 20:31
    74%

    31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 28:6
    74%

    6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    73%

    15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    73%

    22 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

  • Judg 20:10
    73%

    10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    73%

    17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    73%

    8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Sam 31:1
    73%

    1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
    73%

    14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    73%

    52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 21:11
    73%

    11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten 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 when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.