2 Samuel 18:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the battle was scattered over the face of all the country: and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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  • Exod 15:10 : 10 You blew with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • Josh 10:11 : 11 And it happened, as they fled from Israel and were on the descent to Beth Horon, that the LORD cast great stones from heaven upon them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
  • Judg 5:20-21 : 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 21 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.
  • 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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  • 2 Sam 18:5-7
    3 verses
    83%

    5And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains orders concerning Absalom.

    6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim;

    7Where the people of Israel were defeated before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

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

    9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head got caught in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and 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 hanging in an oak.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
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    75%

    14Then Joab said, I cannot linger thus with you. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the midst of the oak.

    15And ten young men who carried Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 2:16-17
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    74%

    16And they grabbed every one his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword into his opponent's side; so they fell together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

    17And there was a very fierce battle that day; and Abner was defeated, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
    73%

    9Behold, he is hidden now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are overthrown at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 18:17
    73%

    17And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and piled a very large heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled each to his tent.

  • 2 Sam 19:8-9
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    73%

    8Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, Behold, the king sits in the gate. And all the people came before the king; for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

    9And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land for Absalom.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    72%

    8And there was war again; and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

  • 2 Sam 19:2-3
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    72%

    2And the victory that day turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard it said that day how the king was grieved for his son.

    3And the people went by stealth that day into the city, as people ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    72%

    20Then Saul and all the people with him assembled and went into battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

  • Isa 10:18
    71%

    18And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.

  • Judg 20:25
    71%

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    70%

    12Moreover, Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    70%

    9And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

    24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • 1 Sam 14:30-31
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    70%

    30How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."

    31They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people were very faint.

  • 1 Sam 14:14
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    14That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about twenty men within about half an acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

  • 1 Sam 14:25
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    25All the people of the land came to a forest, and there was honey on the ground.

  • 2 Sam 13:30
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    30And it came to pass, while they were on the way, that news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    69%

    22So it came to pass on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but they were found with Saul and Jonathan his son.

  • 2 Sam 1:4
    69%

    4And David said to him, How did the matter go? Please, tell me. And he answered, The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people are also fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead as well.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    69%

    8And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 2 Sam 15:13-14
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    69%

    13And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.

    14And David said to all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    69%

    22For many fell down slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the captivity.

  • Ps 80:13
    69%

    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Isa 22:8
    69%

    8And he uncovered the covering of Judah, and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.

  • 2 Sam 17:13
    69%

    13Moreover, if he has entered into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there is not one small stone found there.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    69%

    18And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck down Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

  • 1 Chr 14:15
    68%

    15And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle, for God has gone ahead of you to strike the Philistine army.

  • 2 Sam 17:26
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:23
    68%

    23So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle passed beyond Beth Aven.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
    68%

    10He arose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to plunder.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
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    3He brought out the people who were in it and cut them with saws, with harrows of iron, and with axes. So David dealt with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
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    4And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; David also hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved a hundred chariots of them.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
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    10And the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled every man to his tent, and there was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

  • 2 Sam 13:34
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    34But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
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    1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 14:30
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    30Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

  • 2 Sam 17:2
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    2And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him will flee, and I will strike the king only:

  • Judg 9:48
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    48And Abimelech went up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, cut down a branch from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people with him, What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
    68%

    8And it came to pass on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.