So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

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.

And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon,