“Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 18 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.