2 Samuel 18:8
What does 2 Samuel 18:8 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 18:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And 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.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
Context
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.
v.8This passage
v.9And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon 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 heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 15:10
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
- Judges 5:20
From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
- Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
- 1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- Joshua 10:11
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
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