the people

2 Samuel 2:17
The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.

2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 19:41-43
Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, "Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David's men?" . . .

a great

Proverbs 11:21
Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.

twenty thousand

2 Samuel 2:26, 31
Then Abner called out to Joab: "Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?" . . .

2 Chronicles 13:16, 17
So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands. . . .

2 Chronicles 28:6
For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120, 000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.