2 Samuel
King James Version (KJV)
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 (KJV)
2 Samuel 18:8 Context
5And 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. 6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; 7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. 8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. 9And 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. 10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. 11And 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.
"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." 2 Samuel 18:8 KJV Similar Verses Save
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Translation Details 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.
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.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
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)