2 Samuel 18:8
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
In other versions
For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
ASV
And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
BBE
And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
DBY
For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
WEB
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.
YLT
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
ENG
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
WBT
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
BSB
In context
6So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the 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 hanged in an oak.