2 Samuel 18:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The battle spread over the entire area, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.

Cross References

Exodus 15:10

But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

1 Kings 20:30

The ones who remained fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on those twenty-seven thousand remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled and went into an inner room  in the city.

Joshua 10:11

As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them  from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.

2 Samuel 18:7

Israel’s army was defeated by David’s soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day #– #twenty thousand dead.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in mid-air.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear the  Lord, as well as the king, and don’t associate with rebels,

Proverbs 24:22

for destruction will come suddenly from them; who knows what distress these two can bring?