2 Samuel 18:6

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Joshua 17:18

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

Joshua 17:15

And Joshua said to 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 encamped 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.