2 Samuel 18:8 - Revised Version 1885

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.

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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

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

2 Samuel 18:9

And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon his 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 on.

1 Kings 20:30

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad 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 wicked.

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 destruction of them both?

Joshua 10:11

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were in the going down of Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.