2 Samuel 18:8
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
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.
Note devoured: Heb. multiplied to devour
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- in the wood
- That is, probably, many more were slain in pursuit through the wood than in the battle, by falling into swamps, pits, etc., and being entangled and cut down by David's men. Such is the relation of Josephus; but the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic state, that they were devoured by wild beasts in the wood.
- Exodus 15:10; Joshua 10:11; Judges 5:20, 21; 1 Kings 20:30; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 43:1