2 Samuel 18:8
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
In context
6 So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
7 There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
8 The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
9 Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
10 When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
2 Samuel 18:8 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
- 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.
- 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.