The people of Yisra'el were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 18:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The battle spread out over the entire countryside, and the forest devoured more soldiers than the sword that day. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 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. |
The people of Yisra'el were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
Avshalom happened to meet the servants of David. Avshalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
But the rest fled to Afek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
Arise, LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
My son, fear the LORD and the king. Don't join those who are rebellious:
for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both--who knows?
It happened, as they fled from before Yisra'el, while they were at the descent of Beit-Choron, that the LORD cast down great stones from the sky on them to `Azeka, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Yisra'el killed with the sword.