2 Samuel 18:8
“For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured.”
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2 Samuel 18:8 Context
6¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim, 7Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. 8For the battell was there scattered ouer the face of all the countrey: and the wood deuoured more people that day, then the sword deuoured. 9¶ And Absalom met the seruants of Dauid; and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule went vnder the thicke boughs of a great Oke, and his head caught hold of the Oke, and hee was taken vp betweene the heauen and the earth, and the mule that was vnder him, went away. 10And a certaine man saw it, and told Ioab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an Oke.
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Other Translations for 2 Samuel 18:8
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.
- King James Version
For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
- Basic English Bible
And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- Darby Bible
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.
- Webster's 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.
- World English Bible
and the battle is there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplieth to devour among the people more than those whom the sword hath devoured in that day.
- Youngs Literal Bible
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.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 2 Samuel 18:8
18:8 The wood - More people died in the wood, either through hunger, and thirst, and weariness: or, by the wild beasts, whereof great numbers were there, which, though they were driven away from the place of the main battle, yet might easily meet with them when they fled several ways: or, by falling into ditches and pits, which were in that place, ver.#17|, and probably were covered with grass or wood, so that they could not see them till they fell into them: and especially by David's men, who pursued them, and killed them in the wood: and the wood is rightly said to have devoured them, because it gave the occasion to their destruction, inasmuch as the trees, and ditches, and pits, entangled them, and stopped their flight, and made them an easy prey to David's men, who followed them, and slew them in the pursuit. The sword - In the main battle: the sword being put for the battle, by a common figure.