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2 Samuel 18:8 KJV
2 Samuel · chapter 18 · verse 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.2 Samuel 18:8 · King James Version
2 Samuel 18:8 in context
6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9And 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.
10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- scatteredpûwtsto dash in pieces, literally or figurativelyH6327 →
- devouredʼâkalto eatH398 →
- countryʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- battlemilchâmâha battleH4421 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- swordcherebdroughtH2719 →
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Which way David raised an army here, and what reinforcements were sent him, we are not told; many, it is likely, from all the coasts of Israel, at least from the neighbouring tribes, came in to his assistance, so that, by degrees, he was able to make head against Absalom, as Ahithophel foresaw. Now here we have, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8