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.


In Context

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 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 suspended 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 hanging in an oak.

2 Samuel 18:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:8The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest claimed more lives that day than the sword.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.