2 Samuel 3:38

3:38 Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader ¹  has fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 18:8

18:8 The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

2 Samuel 19:3

19:3 That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

[3:38]  ¹ tn Heb “a leader and a great one.” The expression is a hendiadys.