2 Samuel 18:7
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.
2 Samuel 18:7 in other translations
| BSB | There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men. |
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| WEB | The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day--twenty thousand; |
| DARBY | And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men. |
| BBE | And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does 2 Samuel 18:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 18:1-8
David's over-sorrow. (19-33) Verses 1-8 How does David render good for evil! Absalom would have only David smitten; David would have only Absalom spared. This seems to be a resemblance of man's wickedness towards God, and God's mercy to man, of which it is hard to say which is most amazing. Now the Israelites see what it is to take counsel against the Lord and his anointed.
2 Samuel 18:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 18:7
- Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
- 2 Samuel 2:17
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
- 2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
- 2 Samuel 15:6
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 28:6
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.
- Proverbs 11:21
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
- 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 13:16-17
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
- 2 Samuel 19:41-43
And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan? And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift? And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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Context
- 2 Samuel 18:6
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
- 2 Samuel 18:7
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.
- 2 Samuel 18:8
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
2 Samuel 18:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y allí cayó el pueblo de Israel delante de los siervos de David, é hízose allí en aquel día una gran matanza de veinte mil hombres; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le peuple d’Israël fut battu là par les serviteurs de David; et le carnage fut grand ce jour-là,… 20 000 hommes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Volk von Israel wurde daselbst vor den Knechten Davids geschlagen, und die Niederlage wurde daselbst groß an jenem Tage: 20000 Mann. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et cæsus est ibi populus Israël ab exercitu David, factaque est plaga magna in die illa, viginti millium. |