2 Samuel 18:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ The fighting spread across the land, and the people consumed by the forest were more numerous than those consumed by the sword that day.

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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.

2 Samuel 18:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 18:7

The people of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David. That day the defeat was extensive, twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom was encountered by some of the servants of David. Now Absalom was riding on his mule. When the mule went under the branches of a very large tree, his head was caught in the tree. He was left in midair while the mule that was under him kept going.

1 Kings 20:30

But the rest fled into the city of Aphek, where a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber.

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O  Lord; save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly people; deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

Exodus 15:10

You blew with Your wind, and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Proverbs 24:21

My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not associate with those given to change,

Proverbs 24:22

for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin those two can bring?

Joshua 10:11

As they fled from Israel on the downslope from Beth-horon, the Lord hurled large hailstones down upon them from the sky as far as Azekah. They died, and in fact more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.