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2 Samuel 18:8 Catholic Bible: The fighting spread over the countryside, and more men died in the forest than were killed in battle.
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And Benadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/3-7.htm">Psalm 3:7</a> For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/43-1.htm">Psalm 43:1</a> A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_samuel/18.htm">Absalom Killed</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.</span><span class="reftext">9</span>And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_samuel/18-7.htm">2 Samuel 18:7</a></span><br />And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_samuel/18-9.htm">2 Samuel 18:9</a></span><br />And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/18-6.htm">Battle</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-6.htm">Claimed</a> <a href="/2_samuel/15-23.htm">Country</a> <a 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