King James Version (KJV)
2 Samuel 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.”
Verse in context — 2 Samuel 18
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].
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.
And 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.
And a certain man saw [it], and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
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David’s reign as king, his triumphs and failures, and God’s covenant with him.
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