The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 18:8 - Y'all Version Bible 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 Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak. His head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth, and the mule that was under him went on.
But the rest fled to Aphek, 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 room.
Rise up, YHWH! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the jaw. 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.
for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?
As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, YHWH hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.