2 Samuel 18:8

World English Bible (WEB)

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.

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6 So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

7 The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

8 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.

9 Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

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2 Samuel 18:8 in every translation

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.
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.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
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.