2 Samuel 18:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land, 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.

2 Samuel 18:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:7

and the people of Yisra’ĕ

2 Samuel 18:9

And when Aḇ

1 Kings 20:30

And those that were left fled to Aphĕ

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O יהוה ; Save me, O my Elohim! Because You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the wrong.

Psalm 43:1

Rule me rightly, O Elohim, And plead my cause against a nation without kindness. Oh, deliver me from a man of deceit and unrighteousness!

Exodus 15:10

“You did blow with Your wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear יהוה  and the sovereign; Do not mingle with those who change;

Proverbs 24:22

For their calamity arises suddenly, And who knows the ruin of both of them?

Joshua 10:11

And it came to be, as they fled before Yisra’ĕ