2 Samuel 18:8
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For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. (NASB ©1995)

2 Samuel 18:7 The people of Israel were defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 men.

2 Samuel 18:9 Now Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. For Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught fast in the oak, so he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him kept going. (NASB ©1995)


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.

in the wood That is, probably, many more were slain in pursuit through the wood than in the battle, by falling into swamps, pits, etc., and being entangled and cut down by David's men. Such is the relation of Josephus; but the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic state, that they were {devoured by wild beasts} in the wood. Ex 15:10 Jos 10:11 Jud 5:20,21 1Ki 20:30 Ps 3:7 43:1

devoured more [heb] multiplied to devour

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Alphabetical: and battle claimed countryside day devoured For forest lives more out over people spread sword than that The there was whole

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