⁷ 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.

¹⁷ The battle was very severe 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 forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?"

³¹ But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.

⁶ In this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

⁴¹ Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?

⁴² All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?

⁴³ 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 you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

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

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

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

²¹ Most assuredly, the evil man will not be unpunished, But the seed of the righteous will be delivered.

²¹ My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don't join those who are rebellious: