2 Samuel 18:5-7

Darby Translation

⁵ And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

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

⁷ And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.