And the battle was fierce that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were smitten before the servants of David.

In this manner Absalom acted toward all Israel who came to the king for judgment. Thus Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king, his household, and all David's men with him across the Jordan?

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king; therefore we also have more in David than you. Why then have you despised us; were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king? Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

Though hand join to hand, the wicked shall not be held innocent, but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change;

Then Abner called to Joab and said, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long will it be then until you tell the people to turn back from after their brethren?

But the servants of David had struck down, of Benjamin and Abner's men, three hundred and sixty men who died.

And the sons of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.

And Abijah and his people struck them with a great slaughter; and five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell slain.

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