Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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
Milchamah
Puwts
Paniym
'erets
Rabah
Yowm
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 18:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Absalom Dies In Battle
7 And the people of Israel were killed there before the servants of David. And there was a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand. 8 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. 9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on 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 heavens and the earth. And the mule under him went away.
Cross References
Exodus 15:10
You blew with Your wind; the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Joshua 10:11
And it happened, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the descent of Bethhoron, Jehovah cast down great stones from the heavens on them to Azekah, and they died. The many who died from hailstones were more than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Judges 5:20-21
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city. And there a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of those remaining. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, into an inner room.
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God; for You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Psalm 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.