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.


In Context

5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, |Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.| All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

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 the servants of David, 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 the servants of David. 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 taken up 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.|

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 Webster Bible Translation 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 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.