2 Samuel 18:5

³And they said, Thou shalt not go out: for if we should indeed flee, they will not care for us; and if half of us should die, they will not mind us; for thou art as ten thousand of us: and now it is well that thou shalt be to us an aid to help us in the city.

⁴And the king said to them, Whatsoever shall seem good in your eyes I will do. And the king stood by the side of the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

— 2 Samuel 18:5 —

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

⁷And the people of Israel fell down there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter in that day, even twenty thousand men.