2 Samuel 18:6

Legacy Standard Bible

Then the people went out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:26

And Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

2 Samuel 18:7

And the people of Israel were defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 men.

Joshua 17:15

And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

Joshua 17:18

but the hill country shall be yours. For though it is a forest, you shall clear it, and to its farthest borders it shall be yours; for you shall dispossess the Canaanites, even though they have chariots of iron and even though they are strong.”