2 Samuel 18:8 meaning and explanation
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
2 Samuel 18:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator summarizes the battle between David's professional soldiers and Absalom's larger Israelite force in the forest of Ephraim, east of the Jordan. The verse is a report, not a command or speech.
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