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2 Samuel 18:8
And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
2 Samuel 18:8 · Bible in Basic English
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2 Samuel 18:8 in other translations
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.
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
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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In context
5 And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.
6 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.
7 And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.
8 And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
9 And Absalom came across some of David's men. And Absalom was seated on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great tree, and his head became fixed in the tree and he was lifted up between earth and heaven, and the beast under him went on.
10 And a certain man saw it and said to Joab, I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.
11 And Joab said to the man who had given him the news, If you saw this, why did you not put your sword through him, and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe?
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