2 Samuel 18:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

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  • Josh 17:18 : 18 but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
  • Josh 17:15 : 15 Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
  • Judg 12:4-6 : 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh. 5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No; 6 then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.

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    7The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

    8For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

    9Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

    10A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

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    4The king said to them, What seems you best I will do. The king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

    5The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. All the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 19:8-9
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    8Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

    9All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.

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    14Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

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

    16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.

    17They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.

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    26Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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    21Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    22Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

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    1It was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.

    2The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king grieves for his son.

    3The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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    24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

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    17The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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    21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

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

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    14The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

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    2David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

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