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2 Samuel 18:6–7
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2 Samuel 18:6
6¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
6¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim,
2 Samuel 18:7
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.
7Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 18:6
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A fight or armed conflict; also, troops drawn up for fighting.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 18:7
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Killed or put to death, especially by violence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The killing of persons or animals, especially in great number; as a verb, to kill or slay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
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From verse 6
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Open the full verse study18But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
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Open the full verse study15And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
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Open the full verse study4Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
5And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
6Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study21My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
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Open the full verse study16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
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Open the full verse study6¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study6And 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.
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Open the full verse study41¶ 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?
42And 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?
43And 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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Open the full verse study17And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
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Open the full verse study26Then 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?
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Open the full verse study31But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
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Open the full verse study21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
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