2 Samuel 18:7

World English Bible (2000)

The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

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  • 2 Sam 2:17 : 17 The battle was very severe 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 forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"
  • 2 Sam 2:31 : 31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
  • 2 Sam 15:6 : 6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 19:41-43 : 41 Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?" 42 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's cost? Or has he given us any gift?" 43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 13:16-17 : 16 The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand. 17 Abijah and his people killed 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 killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
  • Prov 11:21 : 21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.
  • Prov 24:21 : 21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don't join those who are rebellious:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 18:8
    83%

    8 For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest 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 forest of Ephraim.

  • 1 Chr 18:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

    5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

  • Judg 20:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

    21 The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    79%

    5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
    78%

    10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

  • Judg 20:25
    78%

    25 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 The battle was very severe 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 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on 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 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the army.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    77%

    18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    77%

    8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • Judg 20:44-46
    3 verses
    76%

    44 There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.

    45 They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

    46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    76%

    8 These were born to 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 There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.

    35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    76%

    12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.

  • 2 Sam 8:13
    76%

    13 David earned a reputation when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29
    76%

    29 They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.

  • Judg 20:39
    75%

    39 The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle."

  • Judg 20:17
    75%

    17 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    75%

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

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    75%

    15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • Judg 20:2
    75%

    2 The chiefs 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 who drew sword.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    75%

    15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    75%

    20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
    74%

    2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    74%

    31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    74%

    9 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    74%

    5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    74%

    15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba 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 on Mount Gilboa.

  • Judg 20:31
    74%

    31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, 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 killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    73%

    15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    73%

    22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.

  • Judg 20:10
    73%

    10 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel."

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    73%

    17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    73%

    8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army 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 on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
    73%

    14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    73%

    52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 21:11
    73%

    11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, 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 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.