Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
The people of Israel were
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.
Holman Bible
The people of Israel were defeated by David’s soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day—20,000 casualties.
International Standard Version
where David's army of servants defeated the Israelis. Many died that day 20,000 men.
A Conservative 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.
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.
Amplified
The men of Israel [who supported Absalom] were defeated there by the
Darby 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.
Julia Smith Translation
And there the people of Israel will be struck before David's servants, and a great slaughter will be in that day of twenty thousand.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The army of Israel [was] defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand.
Modern King James verseion
And the people of Israel were killed there before the servants of David. And there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
where the people of Israel were put to the worse before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter that day, even of twenty thousand men.
NET Bible
The army of Israel was defeated there by David's men. The slaughter there was great that day -- 20,000 soldiers were killed.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Then were the people of Israel defeated there, before he servants of David, - and the slaughter there was great, on that day - twenty thousand.
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.
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.
Youngs 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;
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 18:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Absalom Dies In Battle
6 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim. 7 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. 8 And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:17
And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.
2 Samuel 2:26
Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
2 Samuel 2:31
But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men
2 Samuel 15:6
And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 19:41-43
Then the men of Israel came to the king and said, Why have our countrymen of Judah taken you away in secret and come over Jordan with the king and all his family, because all his people are David's men?
2 Chronicles 13:16-17
And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.
2 Chronicles 28:6
For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Proverbs 11:21
Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions: