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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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.
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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.
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.
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 18
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.
10 And a certain man saw [it], and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַתְּהִי־H1961 · ha.yahto beשָׁ֧םH8033 · shamthereהַמִּלְחָמָ֛הH4421 · mil.cha.mahbattleנָפֹ֖צֶתH6327 · putsto scatterעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֣יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeכָל־H3605 · kolallהָאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetוַיֶּ֤רֶבH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyהַיַּ֙עַר֙H3293 · ya.arwoodלֶאֱכֹ֣לH398 · a.khalto eatבָּעָ֔םH5971 · ampeopleמֵאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichאָכְלָ֛הH398 · a.khalto eatהַחֶ֖רֶבH2719 · che.revswordבַּיּ֥וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַהֽוּא׃H1931 · huhe/she/it
Cross-references
Exodus 15:10Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.Psalm 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.Judges 5:20-21They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.Psalm 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.1 Kings 20:30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and [there] a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
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