2 Samuel 18:5 YLT

³  And the people say, 'Thou dost not go out, for if we utterly flee, they do not set 'their' heart upon us; and if half of us die, they do not set 'their' heart unto us -- for now like us 'are' ten thousand; and now, better that thou be to us from the city for an helper.'

⁴  And the king saith unto them, 'That which is good in your eyes I do;' and the king standeth at the side of the gate, and all the people have gone out by hundreds and by thousands,

⁵  and the king chargeth Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, 'Gently -- for me, for the youth, for Absalom;' and all the people heard in the king's charging all the heads concerning Absalom.

⁶  And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;

⁷  and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;