2 Samuel 18:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For the battell was scattered ouer al the countrey: And the wood deuoured mo people that day, then dyd the sword.

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  • Exod 15:10 : 10 Thou diddest blowe with thy wynde, the sea couered the, they sanke as leade in the myghtie waters.
  • Josh 10:11 : 11 And as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going downe to Bethoron, the Lorde cast downe great stones from heauen vpon them vntyll Azeka, and they dyed: there were mo dead with hayle stones, then they were whom the children of Israel slue with the sworde.
  • Judg 5:20-21 : 20 They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought agaynst Sisara. 21 The ryuer of Kison swept them away, that auncient ryuer the ryuer Kison: O my soule, thou hast marched valiauntly.
  • 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphec into the citie, and there fell a wall vpon twentie and seuen thousande of the men that were left: And Benhadad fled, and came into the citie, from chamber to chamber.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise vp O God, saue thou me O my Lorde: for thou hast smitten all myne enemies vpon the cheeke bone, thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Iudge me O Lorde, and debate my cause with an vnnaturall people: oh delyuer me from the deceiptfull and wicked man.

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  • 2 Sam 18:5-7
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    83%

    5And the king commaunded Ioab, and Abisai, and Ithai, saying: Intreate the young man Absalom gently for my sake. And all the people hearde that the king gaue all the captaynes charge concerning Absalom.

    6And so the people wet out into the fielde against Israel (and the battel was in the wood of Ephraim)

    7Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruauntes of Dauid: & there was a great slaughter that day, euen of twentie thousande men.

  • 2 Sam 18:9-10
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    79%

    9And Absalom mette the seruauntes of Dauid ryding vpon a mule, whiche caried him vnder the thycke bowes of a great oke, and his head was caught of the oke, and he was lift vp betweene the heauen and the earth: and the mule that was vnder him, went away.

    10And one that sawe it, tolde Ioab, saying: Beholde, I sawe Absalom hange in an oke.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
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    14Then sayde Ioab, I may not stand thus tarying with thee: And he toke three dartes in his hande, & thrust them through Absalom whyle he was yet alyue in the middes of the oke.

    15And ten seruauntes that bare Ioabs weapons, turned and smote Absalom, and slue him.

  • 2 Sam 2:16-17
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    16And euery one caught his felowe by ye head, & thrust his sword in his felowes side, and so they fell downe together: Wherefore the place was called Helkath hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

    17And there was an exceeding cruell battel that same day: For Abner and the men of Israel fell before the seruauntes of Dauid.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
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    9Behold he is hyd nowe in some caue, or in some other place: And though some of his men be ouerthrowen at the first brunt, yet they that heare it, will say: The people that foloweth Absalom, be put to the worse.

  • 2 Sam 18:17
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    17And they toke Absalom, and cast him into a great pyt in the wood, and layed a mightie great heape of stones vpon him: And all Israel fled euery one to their tentes.

  • 2 Sam 19:8-9
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    8Then the king arose, and sate in the gate: And they tolde vnto all the people, saying, beholde the king doth sit in the gate, and all the people came before the king: For Israel had fled, euery man to his tent.

    9And al ye people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying: The king saued vs out of the hand of our enemies, & he deliuered vs out of the hande of the Philistines, and nowe he is fled out of the lande for Absalom:

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    72%

    8And the warre began againe, and Dauid went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slue them with a great slaughter, and they fled from hym.

  • 2 Sam 19:2-3
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    2And the victorie of that day was turned into mourning vnto al the people: for the people heard say that day howe ye king sorowed for his sonne.

    3And the people went that day into the citie by stealth, as people confounded to conuey themselues when they flee in battell.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
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    20And Saul ioyned him selfe vnto al the people that were with him, & they came to the battell, and behold euery mans sword was against his felow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

  • Isa 10:18
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    18Yea all the glory of his wooddes and fieldes shalbe consumed with body and soule, and they shalbe as an hoast of men, whose standard bearer fayleth.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25And the children of Beniamin went against them out of Gibea the seconde day, and destroyed to the earth of the childre of Israel once againe eyghteene thousand men that drewe swordes euerie man of them.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
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    12And Abisai the sonne of Zaruia slue of the Edomites in the salt valley eyghteene thousande,

  • 1 Sam 27:9
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    9And Dauid smote the lande, & left neither man nor woman alyue, and droue away the sheepe, the oxen, the asses, camelles, and clothes, and returned, and came to Achis.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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    24Then Dauid came to Mahanaim, And Absalom passed ouer Iordane, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 1 Sam 14:30-31
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    30Howe muche more then to day, if the people had eaten of the spoyle of their enemies whiche they found? And had there not ben then a muche greater slaughter among the Philistines?

    31And they smote the Philistines that day, from Michmas to Aialon: And the people were exceeding faynt.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
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    14And that first slaughter whiche Ionathan & his harnesse bearer made, was vpon a twentie men, within the compasse as it were about an halfe aker of land which two oxen plowe.

  • 1 Sam 14:25
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    25And al they of the land came to a wood, where honie lay vpon the grounde.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
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    30And whyle they were yet in the way, tydinges came to Dauid, saying: Absalom hath slaine all the kinges sonnes, and there is none left alyue.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
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    22And so in time of battel there was neither sword nor speare found in the handes of any of the people that were with Saul and Ionathan: But with Saul & Ionathan his sonne was there found.

  • 2 Sam 1:4
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    4And Dauid sayde vnto him: And what is done I pray thee? tell me. He sayde: The people is fled from the battell, and many of the people are ouerthrowen and dead, and Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead also.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8And when Dauid hearde of it, he sent Ioab and all the hoast of strong men.

  • 2 Sam 15:13-14
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    13And ther came a messenger to Dauid, and sayde: The heartes of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom.

    14And Dauid said vnto all his seruautes that were with him at Hierusalem: Up, that we may flee, for we shall not els escape from Absalom: Make speede to departe, lest he come sodenly & catche vs, and bring euyll vpon vs, and smyte the citie with the edge of the sworde.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22And there fell many wounded, because the warre was of God: And they dwelt in their steades, vntill the time that they were caryed away.

  • Ps 80:13
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    13The wylde bore out of the wood rooteth it vp: and the wylde beast of the fielde deuoureth it.

  • Isa 22:8
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    8And in that day dyd the enemie take away the couer of Iuda, and then didst thou loke towarde the armour of the house of the forest.

  • 2 Sam 17:13
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    13Moreouer, if he be gotten into a towne, then shall al the men of Israel bring ropes to that citie, and we will drawe it into the riuer, vntil ther be not one small stone founde there.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
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    18And the Syrians fled before Israel, and Dauid destroyed seuen hundred charets of the Syrians, & fourtie thousand horsemen, and smote Zoba the captaine of their hoast, which also dyed there.

  • 1 Chr 14:15
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    15And when thou hearest a sounde go in the toppes of the peretrees, then go out to battaile: for God is gone forth before thee, to smyte the hoast of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 17:26
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    26So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Sam 14:23
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    23And so the Lorde saued Israel that day: and the battel continued vnto Bethauen.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
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    10He arose and layed on the Philistines, vntill his hand was weery, and claue vnto the sword: And the Lorde gaue great victory the same day, and the people returned after him, only to spoyle.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
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    3And he brought out the people that were in it, and tormented them with sawes and harrowes of iron, and with other sharpe instrumentes, and so dealt Dauid with all the cities of the children of Ammon: And Dauid and all the people came againe to Hierusalem.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
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    4And Dauid toke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousande horsemen, and twentie thousande footemen, and lamed all the charet horses, and reserued of them an hundred charets.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
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    10And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten downe, and fled euery man into his tent: And there was an exceeding great slaughter, for there were ouerthrowen of Israel thirtie thousand footemen.

  • 2 Sam 13:34
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    34But Absalom fled: And ye young man that kept the watch, lyft vp his eyes & loked, and beholde there came much people by the way of the hill syde behinde him.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and were ouerthrowen & wounded in mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 14:30
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    30Therfore he sayde vnto his seruauntes: Behold, Ioab hath a field by my place, & he hath barlye therin: Go, & set it on fyre. And Absaloms seruauntes set it on fire.

  • 2 Sam 17:2
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    2And I wil come vpo him whyle he is weery and weake handed, and will feare him: And all the people that are with him, shall flee, and so will I smite the king only,

  • Judg 9:48
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    48And Abimeleh gat him to mount Zelmon, both he & all the people that were with him, & toke axes with him, and cut downe bowes of trees, & toke them and bare them on his shulder, & sayde vnto the folke that were with hym: what ye haue seene me do, speede your selues, & do lykewyse as I haue done.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
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    8And it fortuned, that on the morowe when the Philistines came to strip the dead bodies, they founde Saul and his sonnes ouerthrowen in mount Gilboa.