2 Samuel 18:8

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

2 Samuel 18:8

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

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KJV

King James Version

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.

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WEB

World English 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.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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.

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

2 Samuel 18

⁶ So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

⁷ There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

⁸ The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

⁹ Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

¹⁰ When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

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