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2 Samuel 18:8

Forest of Ephraim

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.

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 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.

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BSB
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
DARBY
And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
BLB
For the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplied to devour the people more than the sword devoured that day.
ÅB
Og striden bredte seg ut over hele landet deromkring, og skogen fortærte den dag flere av folket enn sverdet fortærte.
OTB
Slaget spredte seg over hele landet, og skogen fortærte flere folk den dagen enn sverdet fortærte.
B1930
Og striden bredte sig ut over hele landet deromkring, og skogen fortærte den dag flere av folket enn sverdet fortærte.

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  • Exodus 15:10

    Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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  • Joshua 10:11

    And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

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  • Psalms 3:7

    Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

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  • Judges 5:20–21

    They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

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  • 1 Kings 20:30

    But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

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  • Psalms 43:1

    Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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