2nd Samuel

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2nd Samuel Chapter 18 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndSamuel 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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BBE 2ndSamuel 18:8

And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
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DARBY 2ndSamuel 18:8

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.
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KJV 2ndSamuel 18:8

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.
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WBT 2ndSamuel 18:8

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.
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WEB 2ndSamuel 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.
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YLT 2ndSamuel 18:8

and 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.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - The battle was there scattered. The word in the Hebrew is a noun, which the Massorites have changed into a participle. But the noun is right: "The battle became a scattering," that is, it was a series of disconnected encounters, in which David's three divisions attacked and routed Absalom's men, while still on the march, without giving them an opportunity of collecting and forming in order of battle. And the wood devoured more people that day thin the sword devoured. The woodland was difficult, full of gorges and begs and steep defiles leading down to the Jordan, and the fugitives easily lest their way in it, and wandered about till they were hopelessly entangled in thicket and morass.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) The wood devoured more.--The battle and the pursuit covered a wide range of country; more were slain in the pursuit through the wood, both by accident and by the sword, than in the actual battle itself.