2 Samuel 18:8 - King James Version - American Edition

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.

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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.

2 Samuel 18:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:7

where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:9

And Ab´salom met the servants of David. And Ab´salom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

1 Kings 20:30

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben–ha´dad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Psalm 43:1

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Exodus 15:10

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

Proverbs 24:22

for their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Joshua 10:11

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth–ho´ron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Aze´kah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.