⁷ 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.

¹⁷ And the battle was very sore that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

²⁶ Then 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?

³¹ But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, `so that' three hundred and threescore men died.

⁶ And 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.

⁴¹ 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 brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?

⁴² And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?

⁴³ And 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.

¹⁶ And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷ And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

⁶ For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

²¹ `Though' hand `join' in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

²¹ My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king; `And' company not with them that are given to change: