And the people of Israel were killed there before the servants of David. And there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand.
2 Samuel 18:8 - Modern King James Version For the battle was scattered there 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. |
And the people of Israel were killed there before the servants of David. And there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on a 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 heavens and the earth. And the mule under him went away.
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city. And there a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of those remaining. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner room.
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God; for You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
You blew with Your wind; the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change;
for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?
And it happened, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the descent of Bethhoron, Jehovah cast down great stones from the heavens on them to Azekah, and they died. The many who died from hailstones were more than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.