2 Samuel 18:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 15:10 : 10 Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.
  • Josh 10:11 : 11 And it cometh to pass, in their fleeing from the face of Israel -- they `are' in the descent of Beth-Horon -- and Jehovah hath cast upon them great stones out of the heavens, unto Azekah, and they die; more are they who have died by the hailstones than they whom the sons of Israel have slain by the sword.
  • Judg 5:20-21 : 20 From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera. 21 The brook Kishon swept them away, The brook most ancient -- the brook Kishon. Thou dost tread down strength, O my soul!
  • 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 And those left flee to Aphek, unto the city, and the wall falleth on twenty and seven chief men who are left, and Ben-Hadad hath fled, and cometh in unto the city, into the innermost part.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies `on' the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.
  • Ps 43:1 : 1 Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 18:5-7
    3 verses
    83%

    5and the king chargeth Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, `Gently -- for me, for the youth, for Absalom;' and all the people heard in the king's charging all the heads concerning Absalom.

    6And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;

    7and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;

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

    9And Absalom meeteth before the servants of David, and Absalom is riding on the mule, and the mule cometh in under an entangled bough of the great oak, and his head taketh hold on the oak, and he is placed between the heavens and the earth, and the mule that `is' under him hath passed on.

    10And one man seeth, and declareth to Joab, and saith, `Lo, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.'

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14And Joab saith, `Not right -- I tarry before thee;' and he taketh three darts in his hand, and striketh them into the heart of Absalom, while he `is' alive, in the midst of the oak.

    15And they go round -- ten youths bearing weapons of Joab -- and smite Absalom, and put him to death.

  • 2 Sam 2:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16And they lay hold, each on the head of his companion, and his sword `is' in the side of his companion, and they fall together, and `one' calleth that place Helkath-Hazzurim, which `is' in Gibeon,

    17and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 17:9
    73%

    9lo, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it hath been, at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer hath heard, and said, There hath been a slaughter among the people who `are' after Absalom;

  • 2 Sam 18:17
    73%

    17and they take Absalom and cast him in the forest unto the great pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones, and all Israel have fled -- each to his tent.

  • 2 Sam 19:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8And the king riseth, and sitteth in the gate, and to all the people they have declared, saying, `Lo, the king is sitting in the gate;' and all the people come in before the king, and Israel hath fled, each to his tents.

    9And it cometh to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, `The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he hath fled out of the land because of Absalom,

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    72%

    8And there addeth to be war, and David goeth out and fighteth against the Philistines, and smiteth among them -- a great smiting, and they flee from his face.

  • 2 Sam 19:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, `The king hath been grieved for his son.'

    3And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;

  • 1 Sam 14:20
    72%

    20And Saul is called, and all the people who `are' with him, and they come in unto the battle, and, lo, the sword of each hath been against his neighbour -- a very great destruction.

  • Isa 10:18
    71%

    18And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer.

  • Judg 20:25
    71%

    25and Benjamin cometh out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day, and destroy among the sons of Israel again eighteen thousand men -- to the earth; all these are drawing sword.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    70%

    12And Abishai son of Zeruiah hath smitten Edom in the valley of salt -- eighteen thousand,

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    70%

    9and David hath smitten the land, and doth not keep alive man and woman, and hath taken sheep, and oxen, and asses, and camels, and garments, and turneth back, and cometh in unto Achish.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30How much more if the people had well eaten to-day of the spoil of its enemies which it hath found, for now, the smiting hath not been great among the Philistines.'

    31And they smite on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people are very weary,

  • 1 Sam 14:14
    70%

    14And the first smiting which Jonathan and the bearer of his weapons have smitten is of about twenty men, in about half a furrow of a yoke of a field,

  • 1 Sam 14:25
    70%

    25And all `they of' the land have come into a forest, and there is honey on the face of the field;

  • 2 Sam 13:30
    70%

    30And it cometh to pass -- they `are' in the way -- and the report hath come unto David, saying, `Absalom hath smitten all the sons of the king, and there is not left of them one;'

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    69%

    22And it hath been, in the day of battle, that there hath not been found sword and spear in the hand of any of the people who `are' with Saul and with Jonathan -- and there is found to Saul and to Jonathan his son.

  • 2 Sam 1:4
    69%

    4And David saith unto him, `What hath been the matter? declare, I pray thee, to me.' And he saith, that `The people hath fled from the battle, and also a multitude hath fallen of the people, and they die; and also Saul and Jonathan his son have died.'

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    69%

    8And David heareth, and sendeth Joab, and all the host of the mighty men,

  • 2 Sam 15:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13And he who is declaring tidings cometh in unto David, saying, `The heart of the men of Israel hath been after Absalom.'

    14And David saith to all his servants who `are' with him in Jerusalem, `Rise, and we flee, for we have no escape from the face of Absalom; haste to go, lest he hasten, and have overtaken us, and forced on us evil, and smitten the city by the mouth of the sword.'

  • 1 Chr 5:22
    69%

    22for many have fallen pierced, for of God `is' the battle; and they dwell in their stead till the removal.

  • Ps 80:13
    69%

    13A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

  • Isa 22:8
    69%

    8And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,

  • 2 Sam 17:13
    69%

    13And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.'

  • 2 Sam 10:18
    69%

    18and Aram fleeth from the presence of Israel, and David slayeth of Aram seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and Shobach head of its host he hath smitten, and he dieth there.

  • 1 Chr 14:15
    68%

    15and it cometh to pass, when thou hearest the sound of the stepping at the heads of the mulberries, then thou goest out into battle, for God hath gone out before thee to smite the camp of the Philistines.'

  • 2 Sam 17:26
    68%

    26and Israel encampeth with Absalom `in' the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Sam 14:23
    68%

    23And Jehovah saveth Israel on that day, and the battle hath passed over to Beth-Aven.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
    68%

    10he hath arisen, and smiteth among the Philistines till that his hand hath been weary, and his hand cleaveth unto the sword, and Jehovah worketh a great salvation on that day, and the people turn back after him only to strip off.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
    68%

    3and the people who `are' in it he hath brought out, and setteth to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes; and thus doth David to all cities of the sons of Ammon, and David turneth back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    68%

    4and David captureth from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyeth utterly all the chariots, and leaveth of them a hundred chariots `only'.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
    68%

    10And the Philistines fight, and Israel is smitten, and they flee each to his tents, and the blow is very great, and there fall of Israel thirty thousand footmen;

  • 2 Sam 13:34
    68%

    34And Absalom fleeth, and the young man who is watching lifteth up his eyes and looketh, and lo, much people are coming by the way behind him, on the side of the hill.

  • 1 Chr 10:1
    68%

    1And the Philistines have fought with Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa,

  • 2 Sam 14:30
    68%

    30And he saith unto his servants, `See, the portion of Joab `is' by the side of mine, and he hath barley there; go, and burn it with fire;' and the servants of Absalom burn the portion with fire.

  • 2 Sam 17:2
    68%

    2and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who `are' with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,

  • Judg 9:48
    68%

    48and Abimelech goeth up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people who `are' with him, and Abimelech taketh the great axe in his hand, and cutteth off a bough of the trees, and lifteth it up, and setteth `it' on his shoulder, and saith unto the people who `are' with him, `What ye have seen I have done -- haste, do ye like it.'

  • 1 Chr 10:8
    68%

    8And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the Philistines come to strip the wounded, and find Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa,