⁷ and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;

¹⁷ and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

²⁶ and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, `For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'

³¹ and the servants of David have smitten of Benjamin, even among the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men -- they died.

⁶ and Absalom doth according to this thing to all Israel who come in for judgment unto the king, and Absalom stealeth the heart of the men of Israel.

⁴¹ And, lo, all the men of Israel are coming unto the king, and they say unto the king, `Wherefore have they stolen thee -- our brethren, the men of Judah?' (and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him).

⁴² And all the men of Judah answer against the men of Israel, `Because the king `is' near unto us, and why `is' this -- ye are displeased about this matter? have we at all eaten of the king's `substance?' a gift hath he lifted up to us?'

⁴³ And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel flee from the face of Judah, and God giveth them into their hand,

¹⁷ and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

⁶ And Pekah son of Remaliah slayeth in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day (the whole `are' sons of valour), because of their forsaking Jehovah, God of their fathers.

²¹ Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.

²¹ Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,