Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 18:7

2 Samuel chapter 18 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And 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.

Context

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

v.7This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Samuel 2:31

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

  • 2 Chronicles 13:16

    And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

  • 2 Samuel 2:17

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

  • Proverbs 24:21

    My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king; And company not with them that are given to change:

  • Proverbs 11:21

    Thoughhandjoinin hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6

    For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.