Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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.

New American Standard Bible

For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

The battle spread over the entire region, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.

International Standard Version

The battle spread throughout the entire countryside, and the forest claimed more casualties that day than did the sword fighting.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

For the battle there was spread out over the surface of the entire countryside, and the [hazards of the] forest devoured more men that day than did the sword.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

And there the battle will be scattered upon the face of all the earth: and the forest will multiply to consume of the people above what the sword will consume in that day.

King James 2000

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and {the forest devoured more among the army than} the sword [did] on that day.

Modern King James verseion

For the battle was scattered there over the face of all the country. And the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the field was fought in divers places, all abroad upon the earth. And the woods devoured more people that day than did the sword.

NET Bible

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

And the battle there was spread out over the face of all the land, - and the forest devoured more of the people than the sword devoured on that day.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the battle
מלחמה 
Milchamah 
Usage: 319

over the face
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

of all the country
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and the wood
יער 
Ya`ar 
Usage: 58

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

than the sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Fox

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Absalom Dies In Battle

7 And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. 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. 9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his 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 sky and earth, and t



Cross References

Exodus 15:10

Thou did blow with thy wind, the sea covered them. They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Joshua 10:11

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah, and they died. More died with the hailstones than those whom the

Judges 5:20-21

From heaven the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

1 Kings 20:30

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 43:1

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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