2 Samuel 18:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 3 Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For the battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more men that day than did the sword.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ The battle spread out over the entire countryside, and the forest devoured more soldiers than the sword that day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Now the battle in that place was dispersed over the face of all the land. And there were many more of the people whom the forest had consumed, than the sword had devoured, on that day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country: and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.

2 Samuel 18:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:7

2 And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's son: for in our hearing he king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.

2 Samuel 18:9

4 And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,

1 Kings 20:30

5 Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his companion in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.

Psalm 3:7

The light of thy countenance O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Psalm 43:1

Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them : thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Exodus 15:10

3 In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.

Proverbs 24:21

8 Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Proverbs 24:22

9 Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.

Joshua 10:11

6 For the five kings were fled, and had hidden themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda.