2 Samuel 18:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest claimed more victims that day than the sword.

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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

The men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

1 Kings 20:30

The rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered the city to hide.

Psalm 3:7

Rise up, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!

Exodus 15:10

You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 24:21

My child, fear the Lord and the king, and do not disobey either of them,

Proverbs 24:22

for disaster comes from them suddenly, and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

Joshua 10:11

As they fled before Israel, while they were going down the slope of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down huge stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.