2 Samuel 18:8
“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.”
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
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.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon 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 heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
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Related Verses
“So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;”
“Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.”
“When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.”
“And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.”
“But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.”