2 Samuel 18:8
Good News Translation
The fighting spread over the countryside, and more men died in the forest than were killed in battle.

New Revised Standard Version
The battle spread over the face of all the country; and the forest claimed more victims that day than the sword.

New American Bible
The battle spread out over that entire region, and the forest consumed more combatants that day than did the sword.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

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And 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.

Exodus 15:10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

Joshua 10:11 And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were in the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the hailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,

Judges 5:20,21 There was war made against them from heaven: the stars, remaining in their order and courses, fought against Sisara. . . .

1 Kings 20:30 And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.

Psalm 3:7 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 43:1 A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

Context
Absalom Killed
7And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men. 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.9And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 18:7
And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:9
And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.

2 Samuel 18:7
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