2 Samuel 18:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ The battle spread over the entire area, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ The battle spread out over the entire countryside, and the forest devoured more soldiers than the sword that day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.

2 Samuel 18:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 18:7

Israel’s army was defeated by David’s soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day #– #twenty thousand dead.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in mid-air.

1 Kings 20:30

The ones who remained fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on those twenty-seven thousand remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled and went into an inner room  in the city.

Exodus 15:10

But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear the  Lord, as well as the king, and don’t associate with rebels,

Proverbs 24:22

for destruction will come suddenly from them; who knows what distress these two can bring?

Joshua 10:11

As they fled before Israel, the Lord threw large hailstones on them  from the sky along the descent of Beth-horon all the way to Azekah, and they died. More of them died from the hail than the Israelites killed with the sword.