Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 18:8 - King James 2000 For the battle was there scattered over the face 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. |
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
My son, fear the LORD and the king: and associate not with them that are given to change:
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were on the decent to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.