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.
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.
5 And 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.
6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
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.
9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on 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.
10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
18:8The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest claimed more lives that day than the sword.
18:8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:8And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.
18:8For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:8And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:8For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country: and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:8For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:8and 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.