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.


In Context

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

5 The 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 commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

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

7 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.

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.

9 Absalom 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.

2 Samuel 18:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:7There the army of Israel was defeated by David's men, and the casualties that day were great-twenty thousand men.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:7And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:7And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:7And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:7And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:7and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day — twenty thousand;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.