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.
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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.
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
And the people of Israel were struck there to the face of the servants of David. And the striking there was great on that day, 20,000.
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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.
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
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.
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.
Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid: so there was a great slaughter that day, euen of twentie thousande.
And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.
and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;
and the people of Israel are struck there before the servants of David, and the striking there is great on that day—twenty thousand;
The army of Israel was defeated there before the soldiers of David; there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
And the people of Israel were struck there to the face of the servants of David. And the striking there was great on that day, 20,000.
And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.
The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
The Israelites were defeated by David's men and many were killed that day—some twenty thousand.
And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.
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.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמַּגֵּפָ֧ה plague H4046 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
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Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 18:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּנָּ֤גְפוּ שָׁם֙ עַ֣ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִפְנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֑ד וַתְּהִי שָׁ֞ם הַמַּגֵּפָ֧ה גְדוֹלָ֛ה בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא עֶשְׂרִ֥ים אָֽלֶף
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.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί πταίω ἐκεῖ ὁ λαός ἰσραήλ ἐνώπιον ὁ παῖς δαυίδ καί γίγνομαι ὁ θραῦσις μέγας ἐν ὁ ἡμέρα ἐκεῖνος εἴκοσι χιλίας ἀνήρ
And the people of Israel fell down there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter in that day, even twenty thousand men.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וְאִתַּבָּרוּ תַמָן עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל קֳדָם עַבְדֵי דָוִד וַהֲוַת תַּמָן מְחָתָא רַבְּתָא בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא עַסְרִין אַלְפִין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is maggêphâh (“plague”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 18:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.