Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a 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.
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;
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.
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 chargeth Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, 'Gently -- for me, for the youth, for Absalom;' and all the people heard in the king's charging all the heads concerning Absalom. 6 And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim; 7 and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;
Cross References
Joshua 17:18
because the mountain is thine; because it is a forest -- thou hast prepared it, and its outgoings have been thine; because thou dost dispossess the Canaanite, though it hath chariots of iron -- though it is strong.'
Joshua 17:15
And Joshua saith unto them, 'If thou art a numerous people, go up for thee to the forest, then thou hast prepared for thee there, in the land of the Perizzite, and of the Rephaim, when mount Ephraim hath been narrow for thee.'
Judges 12:4-6
And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fighteth with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim, because they said, 'Fugitives of Ephraim are ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim -- in the midst of Manasseh.'