2 Samuel 18:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ And the king commanded Joab, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom. And all the people heard the king giving charge to all the princes concerning Absalom.

⁶ So the people went out into the field against Israel and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.

⁷ And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.