Seed multiple rows at once laravel 5

I'm currently trying to seed my users table. If I try it like this with 2 rows, it fails. It works fine if I just use a single array instead of the 2 arrays inside the $users array to create some fake data.

What am I doing wrong, what is the proper way to do this?

class UserTableSeeder extends Seeder {

    public function run()
    {
        DB::table('users')->delete();

        $users = [
            ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'Stephan de Vries', 'username' => 'stephan', 'email' => 'stephan-v@gmail.com', 'password' => bcrypt('carrotz124')],
            ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'John doe', 'username' => 'johnny', 'email' => 'johndoe@gmail.com', 'password' => bcrypt('carrotz1243')],
        ];

        User::create($users);
    }

}

If you have to use the model you need a loop:

foreach($users as $user){
    User::create($user);
}

Otherwise you can just use DB::table() and insert:

DB::table('users')->insert($users);

Actually you can also call insert() on the model (the resulting query is the same)

User::insert($users);

Note if you choose the insert method you loose special Eloquent functionality such as timestamps and model events.