KJV King James Version
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
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2 Samuel 18:6
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
WEB World English Bible
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
ASV American Standard Version
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 18
3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.
4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man, [even] with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].
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.
9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that [was] under him went away.
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Joshua 17:18But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, [and] though they [be] strong.Joshua 17:15And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people, [then] get thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.Judges 12:4-6Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.
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