2 Samuel 18:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Exod 15:10 : 10 Thou blewest with thy winde, the Sea couered them, they sanke as leade in the mightie waters.
  • Josh 10:11 : 11 And as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going downe to Beth-horon, the Lord cast downe great stones from heauen vpon them, vntill Azekah, and they dyed: they were more that dyed with the hailestones, then they whom the children of Israel slewe with the sword.
  • Judg 5:20-21 : 20 They fought from heauen, euen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera. 21 The Riuer Kishon swepe them away, that ancient riuer the riuer Kishon. O my soule, thou hast marched valiantly.
  • 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek into the citie: & there fel a wall vpon seuen and twentie thousand men that were left: and Ben-hadad fled into the citie, and came into a secret chamber.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Ivdge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.

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  • 2 Sam 18:5-7
    3 verses
    83%

    5And the King commanded Ioab and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Entreate the yong man Absalom gently for my sake; all the people heard whe the King gaue al the captaines charge concerning Absalom.

    6So the people went out into the fielde to meete Israel, and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim:

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

  • 2 Sam 18:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9Nowe Absalom met the seruants of Dauid, and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule came vnder a great thicke oke: and his head caught holde of the oke, and he was taken 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 hanged in an oke.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
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    14Then saide Ioab, I will not thus tary with thee; he tooke three dartes in his hande, and thrust them through Absalom, while he was yet aliue in the middes of the oke.

    15And tenne seruants that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slewe him.

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

    17And the battel was exceeding sore that same day: for Abner and the men of Israel fell before the seruants of Dauid.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
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    9Behold, he is hid now in some caue, or in some place: and though some of them be ouerthrowen at the first, yet the people shall heare, and say, The people that follow Absalom, be ouerthrowen.

  • 2 Sam 18:17
    73%

    17And they tooke Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and layed a mightie great heape of stones vpon him: and all Israel fled euery one to his tent.

  • 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 doeth sit in the gate: and all the people came before the King: for Israel had fled euery man to his tent.

    9Then all the people were at strife thorowout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The King saued vs out of the hand of our enemies, and he deliuered vs out of the hande of the Philistims, & nowe he is fled out of the lande for Absalom.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    72%

    8Againe the warre began, & Dauid went out & fought with the Philistims, and slew them with a great slaughter, and they fled from him.

  • 2 Sam 19:2-3
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    72%

    2Therefore the victorie of that day was turned into mourning to all the people: for the people heard say that day, The King soroweth for his sonne.

    3And the people went that day into the citie secretly, as people confounded hide them selues when they flee in battell.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    72%

    20And Saul was assembled with all the people that were with him, and they came to the battell: and behold, euery mans sworde was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

  • Isa 10:18
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    18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitfull fieldes both soule and flesh: and he shalbe as ye fainting of a standard bearer.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25Also the second day Beniamin came forth to meete them out of Gibeah, and slewe downe to the grounde of the children of Israel againe eighteene thousand men: all they could handle the sword.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    70%

    12And Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah smote of Edom in the salt valley eighteene thousand,

  • 1 Sam 27:9
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    9And Dauid smote the lande, and left neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke sheepe, & oxen, and asses, and camels, and apparell, and returned and came to Achish.

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

  • 1 Sam 14:30-31
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    30Howe much more, if the people had eaten to day of the spoyle of their enemies which they found? for had there not bene nowe a greater slaughter among the Philistims?

    31And they smote the Philistims that day, from Michmash to Aiialon: and the people were exceeding faint.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
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    14So the first slaughter which Ionathan and his armour bearer made, was about twentie men, as it were within halfe an acre of land which two oxen plowe.

  • 1 Sam 14:25
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    25And all they of the land came to a wood, where hony lay vpon the ground.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
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    30And while they were in the way, tydings came to Dauid, saying, Absalom hath slaine al the Kings sonnes, & there is not one of them left.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
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    22So whe the day of battell was come, there was neither sworde nor speare founde in the handes of any of the people that were with Saul and with Ionathan: but onely with Saul and Ionathan his sonne was there founde.

  • 2 Sam 1:4
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    4And Dauid saide vnto him, What is done? I pray thee, tell me. Then he said, that the people is fled from the battel, and many of the people are ouerthrowen, and dead, & also Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    69%

    8And when Dauid heard, he sent Ioab and all the hoste of the valiant men.

  • 2 Sam 15:13-14
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    13Then came a messenger to Dauid, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are turned after Absalom.

    14Then Dauid sayd vnto all his seruants that were with him at Ierusalem, Vp, and let vs flee: for we shall not escape from Absalom: make speede to depart, lest he come suddenly and take vs, and bring euill vpon vs, and smite the citie with the edge of the sworde.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22For many fel downe wounded, because the warre was of God; they dwelt in their steads vntill the captiuitie.

  • Ps 80:13
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    13The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.

  • Isa 22:8
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    8And hee discouered the couering of Iudah: and thou didest looke in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

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

  • 2 Sam 10:18
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    18And the Aramites fled before Israel: and Dauid destroyed seuen hundreth charets of the Aramites, and fourtie thousande horsemen, and smote Shobach the captaine of his hoste, who dyed there.

  • 1 Chr 14:15
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    15And when thou hearest the noyse of one going in the toppes of the mulberie trees, then goe out to battel: for God is gone foorth before thee, to smite the hoste of the Philistims.

  • 2 Sam 17:26
    68%

    26So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Sam 14:23
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    23And so the Lord saued Israel that day: and the battell continued vnto Beth-auen.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
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    10He arose and smote the Philistims vntill his hande was wearie, and his hande claue vnto the sworde: and the Lorde gaue great victorie the same day, and the people returned after him onely to spoyle.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
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    3And he caryed away the people that were in it, and cut them with sawes, and with harowes of yron, and with axes: euen thus did Dauid with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then Dauid and all the people came againe to Ierusalem.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
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    4And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen, and destroyed all the charets, but he reserued of them an hundreth charets.

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

  • 2 Sam 13:34
    68%

    34Then Absalom fled: and the yong man that kept the watch, lift vp his eyes, and looked, and behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behinde him.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1Then the Philistims fought against Israel: & the men of Israel fled before the Philistims, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 14:30
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    30Therefore he sayde vnto his seruants, Beholde, Ioab hath a fielde by my place, and hath barley therein: go, and set it on fire: and Absaloms seruants set the field on fire.

  • 2 Sam 17:2
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    2And I will come vpon him: for he is wearie, and weake handed: so I will feare him, and all the people that are with him, shall flee, and I will smite the King onely,

  • Judg 9:48
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    48And Abimelech gate him vp to mounte Zalmon, hee and all the people that were with him: and Abimelech tooke axes with him, and cut downe boughes of trees, and tooke them, and bare them on his shoulder, and sayde vnto the folke that were with him, What ye haue seene me doe, make haste, and doe like me.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
    68%

    8And on the morrowe when the Philistims came to spoyle them that were slaine, they found Saul and his sonnes lying in mount Gilboa.