2 Samuel 18:8
King James Version
Translation: KJV
6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;Select 2 Samuel 18:6
7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.Select 2 Samuel 18:7
8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.Select 2 Samuel 18:8
9And 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.Select 2 Samuel 18:9
10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.Select 2 Samuel 18:10
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WEB
18:8 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
18:8 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.
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