2 Samuel 17:9

At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, ¹  whoever hears about it will say, ‘Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’

Jos 7:5; Jos 8:6; Jud 20:32; Jud 20:33; 1Sa 14:14,15; 1Sa 22:1; 1Sa 24:3

¹ tn Heb “that he falls on them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] at the first [encounter]; or “that some of them [i.e., Absalom’s troops] fall at the first [encounter].”