Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And the people will go forth to the field to the meeting of Israel: and the war will be in the forest of Ephraim;
New American Standard Bible
Then the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle took place in
King James Version
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
Holman Bible
Then David’s forces marched into the field to engage Israel in battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
International Standard Version
David's army left for the battlefield to fight Absalom and his Israeli followers, and they also fought in the Ephraim forest,
A Conservative Version
So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
American Standard Version
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
Amplified
So the men went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.
Bible in Basic English
So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.
Darby Translation
And the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
King James 2000
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim;
Lexham Expanded Bible
The army went out to the field to meet Israel, and the battle was [fought] in the forest of Ephraim.
Modern King James verseion
And the people went out into the field against Israel. And the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim:
NET Bible
Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
New Heart English Bible
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
The Emphasized Bible
So the people went forth into the field against Israel, - and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
Webster
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
World English Bible
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 18:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Absalom Dies In Battle
5 And the king will command Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Gently for me to the boy, to Absalom. And all the people heard in the king's commanding all the chiefs for the word of Absalom. 6 And the people will go forth to the field to the meeting of Israel: and the war will be in the forest of Ephraim; 7 And there the people of Israel will be struck before David's servants, and a great slaughter will be in that day of twenty thousand.
Cross References
Joshua 17:18
But the mountain shall be to thee, for it is a forest, and thou shalt cut it down; and its out-goings were to thee; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanite, if the chariot of iron is to him; if he is strong.
Joshua 17:15
And Joshua will say to them, If thou much people go up for thyself to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzite and of the Rephaims, if mount Ephraim was narrow to thee.
Judges 12:4-6
And Jephthah will gather together all the men of Gilead, and he will war with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead will strike Ephraim because they said, The escaped of Ephraim, ye of Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.