2 Samuel 18:8 - The Scriptures 2009

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.

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 Yisra’ĕl were smitten there before the servants of Dawiḏ. And the slaughter there that day was great – twenty thousand.

2 Samuel 18:9

And when Aḇshalom met the servants of Dawiḏ, Aḇshalom was riding on a mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught hold in the terebinth. And he was suspended between the heavens and earth while the mule which was under him passed on.

1 Kings 20:30

And those that were left fled to Aphĕq, into the city, and a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And Ben-Haḏaḏ fled and went into the city, into an inner room.

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O יהוה; Save me, O my Elohim! Because You have stricken 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 loving-commitment. 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’ĕl and were on the descent of Bĕyth Ḥoron, that יהוה threw down large hailstones from the heavens on them as far as Azĕqah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Yisra’ĕl had killed with the sword.