2 Samuel 18:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

Common English Bible

⁶ So the troops marched into the field to meet the Israelites. The battle was fought in the Ephraim forest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And so, the people departed into the field against Israel. And the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18:6 Cross References

Joshua 17:18

but the hill country shall be thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the goings out thereof shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they be strong.

Joshua 17:15

And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

2 Samuel 17:26

And Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

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.