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1
|2 Samuel 18:1|
David mustered the men who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
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2
|2 Samuel 18:2|
David sent the troops out — a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king told the troops, “I myself will surely march out with you.”
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3
|2 Samuel 18:3|
But the men said, “You must not go out; if we are forced to flee, they won’t care about us. Even if half of us die, they won’t care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. [Two Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts care; for now there are ten thousand like us] It would be better now for you to give us support from the city.”
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4
|2 Samuel 18:4|
The king answered, “I will do whatever seems best to you.” So the king stood beside the gate while all the men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands.
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5
|2 Samuel 18:5|
The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, “Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.” And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.
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6
|2 Samuel 18:6|
The army marched into the field to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
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7
|2 Samuel 18:7|
There the army of Israel was defeated by David’s men, and the casualties that day were great — twenty thousand men.
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8
|2 Samuel 18:8|
The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest claimed more lives that day than the sword.
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9
|2 Samuel 18:9|
Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in mid-air, while the mule he was riding kept on going.
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10
|2 Samuel 18:10|
When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I have just seen Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”
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