Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 18:6

2 Samuel chapter 18 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

Context

v.5And 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.

v.6This passage

v.7And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Joshua 17:18

    but the hill-country shall be thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the goings out thereof shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.

  • Judges 12:4

    Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.

  • Joshua 17:15

    And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.