David’s army marched out of the city to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest(A) of Ephraim.

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So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

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There Israel’s troops were routed by David’s men, and the casualties that day were great—twenty thousand men.

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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.

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20 “Tell it not in Gath,(A)
    proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,(B)
lest the daughters of the Philistines(C) be glad,
    lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.(D)

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20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

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