2 Samuel 18:7

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The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

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  • 2 Sam 2:17 : 17 Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers.
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then Abner called out to Joab,“Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”
  • 2 Sam 2:31 : 31 But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!
  • 2 Sam 15:6 : 6 Absalom acted this way toward everyone in Israel who came to the king for justice. In this way Absalom won the loyalty of the citizens of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 19:41-43 : 41 Then all the men of Israel began coming to the king. They asked the king,“Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, sneak the king away and help the king and his household cross the Jordan– and not only him but all of David’s men as well?” 42 All the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel,“Because the king is our close relative! Why are you so upset about this? Have we eaten at the king’s expense? Or have we misappropriated anything for our own use?” 43 The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah,“We have ten shares in the king, and we have a greater claim on David than you do! Why do you want to curse us? Weren’t we the first to suggest bringing back our king?” But the comments of the men of Judah were more severe than those of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 13:16-17 : 16 The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah. 17 Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.
  • 2 Chr 28:6 : 6 In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors.
  • Prov 11:21 : 21 Be assured that the evil person will not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous have escaped harm.
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 Fear the LORD, my child, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 18:8
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    8The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

  • 2 Sam 18:6
    81%

    6Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

  • 1 Chr 18:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4David seized from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 charioteers, and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of Hadadezer’s chariot horses.

    5The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

    21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    79%

    5The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
    78%

    10So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell in battle.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
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    17Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers.

  • 1 Chr 19:17-18
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    77%

    17When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, and marched against them. David deployed his army against the Arameans for battle and they fought against him.

    18The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 7,000 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 infantrymen; he also killed Shophach the commanding general.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    77%

    18The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    77%

    8Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly and they ran away from him.

  • Judg 20:44-46
    3 verses
    76%

    44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

    45The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

    46That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    76%

    8These were the descendants of Rapha who lived in Gath; they were killed by the hand of David and his soldiers.

  • Judg 20:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    76%

    12Abishai son of Zeruiah killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

  • 2 Sam 8:13
    76%

    13David became famous when he returned from defeating the Edomites in the Valley of Salt; he defeated 18,000 in all.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29
    76%

    29The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

  • Judg 20:17
    75%

    17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    75%

    17Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    75%

    15Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

  • Judg 20:2
    75%

    2The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    75%

    15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    75%

    20Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
    74%

    2The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    74%

    31But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    74%

    9Joab reported the number of warriors to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    74%

    5Joab reported to David the number of warriors. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    74%

    15So the LORD sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
    74%

    1Saul’s Death Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

  • Judg 20:31
    74%

    31The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 28:6
    74%

    6In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    73%

    15So they got up and crossed over by number: twelve belonging to Benjamin and to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    73%

    22Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.

  • Judg 20:10
    73%

    10We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel(and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    73%

    17Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    73%

    8When David heard the news, he sent Joab and the entire army to meet them.

  • 1 Sam 31:1
    73%

    1The Death of Saul Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel. The men of Israel fled from the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
    73%

    14In this initial skirmish Jonathan and his armor bearer struck down about twenty men in an area that measured half an acre.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    73%

    52Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. They chased the Philistines to the valley and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 21:11
    73%

    11The servants of Achish said to him,“Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,‘Saul struck down his thousands, But David his tens of thousands’?”

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    73%

    19They are with Saul and the whole Israelite army in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    73%

    7When David heard the news, he sent Joab and the entire army to meet them.