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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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)