2 Samuel 18:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest claimed more victims that day than the sword.

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:7

The men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

1 Kings 20:30

The rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered the city to hide.

Psalm 3:7

Rise up, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!

Exodus 15:10

You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 24:21

My child, fear the Lord and the king, and do not disobey either of them,

Proverbs 24:22

for disaster comes from them suddenly, and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

Joshua 10:11

As they fled before Israel, while they were going down the slope of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down huge stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.