2 Samuel 18:8

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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.devoured: Heb. multiplied to devour

WEB

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.

ASV

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.

LSV

and the battle there is scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplies to devour among the people more than those whom the sword has devoured in that day.

YLT

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.

DBY

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.

DRC

And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.

GNV

For the battel was skattered ouer all the countrey: and the wood deuoured much more people that day, then did the sworde.

JPS

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.

LXXE

And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land: and the wood consumed more of the people than the sword consumed among the people in that day.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֧ם הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה נפצית עַל־פְּנֵ֣י כָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיֶּ֤רֶב הַיַּ֨עַר֙ לֶאֱכֹ֣ל בָּעָ֔ם מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר אָכְלָ֛ה הַחֶ֖רֶב בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃Read aloud as (qere): נָפֹ֖צֶתWe read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐκεῖ ὁ πόλεμος διεσπαρμένος ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐπλεόνασεν ὁ δρυμὸς τοῦ καταφαγεῖν ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ, ὑπὲρ οὓς κατέφαγεν ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἡ μάχαιρα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκαίνῃ.

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• Exodus 15:10But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
• Joshua 10:11As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
• Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
• Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
• 1 Kings 20:30The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
• Judges 5:20–21From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera. The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

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