Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
The people
A great
Twenty thousand men
General references
Bible References
The people
2 Samuel 2:17
The battle was very violent that day, with Abner and the men of Israel being defeated in the presence of David's servants.
2 Samuel 15:6
By doing all of this to anyone who came to the king for a hearing, Absalom stole the loyalty of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 19:41
Not long afterward, all the men of Israel started coming to the king, complaining to him, "Why did our relatives in Judah's army sneak you away, taking the king and his household over the Jordan River, along with David's army?"
A great
Proverbs 11:21
Be sure of this: the wicked will not go unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous will go free.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear both the LORD and the king, and don't keep company with rebels.
Twenty thousand men
2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called out to Joab, "Must the battle sword keep on devouring forever? Don't you realize that the end result is bitterness? How long will it take for you to order your army to stop pursuing their own relatives?"
2 Chronicles 13:16
When the descendants of Israel ran away from the army of Judah, God handed them over to the army of Judah.
2 Chronicles 28:6
Remaliah's son Pekah killed 120,000 soldiers in a single day, all of them elite forces, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their ancestors.
General references
Psalm 18:38
I struck them down, so they are not able to rise up; they fell under my feet.