2 Samuel 18:8 “The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest…”

2 Samuel 18:8

The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

World English Bible

For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

American Standard Version

For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the battel was skattered ouer all the countrey: and the wood deuoured much more people that day, then did the sworde.

Darby Translation

And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Young's Literal Translation

and the battle is there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplieth to devour among the people more than those whom the sword hath devoured in that day.

Bible in Basic English

And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.

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Cross references

“the wood”

Exodus 15:10 Joshua 10:11 1 Kings 20:30 Psalm 3:7 Psalm 43:1 Judges 5:20

Exodus 15:10 · BSB

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Joshua 10:11 · BSB

As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

1 Kings 20:30 · BSB

The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

Psalm 3:7 · BSB

Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 43:1 · BSB

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

Judges 5:20 · BSB

From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

9Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

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