◄ 2 Samuel 18:8 ►
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
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2 Samuel 18:7
There the people of Israel were defeated by David's servants, and the slaughter was great that day--twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:9
Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.


Treasury of Scripture
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.


Exodus 15:10
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.



Joshua 10:11
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.



Judges 5:20,21
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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