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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 18:8 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Sa 18:8 |
Strong Concordance |
For the battle [04421] was there scattered [06327] over the face [06440] of all the country [0776]: and the wood [03293] devoured [0398] more [07235] people [05971] that day [03117] than the sword [02719] devoured [0398]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
the wood devoured more people than the sword--The thick forest of oaks and terebinths, by obstructing the flight, greatly aided the victors in the pursuit. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The battle was scattered - Probably Absalom's forces were far more numerous than David's; but, most likely by Joab's skillful generalship, the field of battle was such that numbers did not tell, and David's veteran troops were able to destroy Absalom's rabble in detail. The wood entangled them, and was perhaps full of pits, precipices, and morasses Sa2 18:17. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The conflict extended over the surface of the whole land, i.e., the whole of that region (the Chethib נפצות is not the plural נפצות, which would be quite unsuitable, but is most probably a noun, נפצוּת ,nuon a, signifying bursting asunder, or wild flight; the Keri נפצת is a Niphal participle, fem. gen.); "and the wood devoured more of the people than the sword ate on the same day." The woody region was most likely full of ravines, precipices, and marches, into which the flying foe was pursued, and where so many perished. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The wood - More people died in the wood, either through hunger, and thirst, and weariness: or, by the wild beasts, whereof great numbers were there, which, though they were driven away from the place of the main battle, yet might easily meet with them when they fled several ways: or, by falling into ditches and pits, which were in that place, Sa2 18:17, and probably were covered with grass or wood, so that they could not see them till they fell into them: and especially by David's men, who pursued them, and killed them in the wood: and the wood is rightly said to have devoured them, because it gave the occasion to their destruction, inasmuch as the trees, and ditches, and pits, entangled them, and stopped their flight, and made them an easy prey to David's men, who followed them, and slew them in the pursuit. The sword - In the main battle: the sword being put for the battle, by a common figure. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The wood devoured more people - It is generally supposed that, when the army was broken, they betook themselves to the wood, fell into pits, swamps, etc., and, being entangled, were hewn down by David's men; but the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, state that they were devoured by wild beasts in the wood. |
17 And they took [03947] Absalom [053], and cast [07993] him into a great [01419] pit [06354] in the wood [03293], and laid [05324] a very [03966] great [01419] heap [01530] of stones [068] upon him: and all Israel [03478] fled [05127] every one [0376] to his tent [0168].
17 And they took [03947] Absalom [053], and cast [07993] him into a great [01419] pit [06354] in the wood [03293], and laid [05324] a very [03966] great [01419] heap [01530] of stones [068] upon him: and all Israel [03478] fled [05127] every one [0376] to his tent [0168].