2 Samuel 18:7
 2 Samuel 18:7 
New International Version (©2011)
There Israel's troops were routed by David's men, and the casualties that day were great--twenty thousand men.

New Living Translation (©2007)
and the Israelite troops were beaten back by David's men. There was a great slaughter that day, and 20,000 men laid down their lives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The people of Israel were defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 men.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The people of Israel were defeated by David's soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day--20,000 casualties.

International Standard Version (©2012)
where David's army of servants defeated the Israelis. Many died that day—20,000 men.

NET Bible (©2006)
The army of Israel was defeated there by David's men. The slaughter there was great that day--20,000 soldiers were killed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There David's men defeated Israel's army, and the massacre was sizable that day-20,000 men.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.

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

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-8 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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David,.... That is, the people of Israel that were under Absalom, these were beaten by David's army:

and there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men; including both those that fell in the field of battle, and that were slain in the pursuit; and this is to be understood only of Absalom's party.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. the people of Israel were slain—This designation, together with the immense slaughter mentioned later, shows the large extent to which the people were enlisted in this unhappy civil contest.


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Absalom Killed
6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; 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. 8For 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 18:6 David's army marched out of the city to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
2 Samuel 18:8 The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.
Psalm 144:10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword