2 Samuel 18:7-8

7 The people of Israel were defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 * men.

8 For the battle there was spread over * the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than * the sword devoured.

2 Samuel 18:7-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 18

In this chapter is an account of David's review of his army, preparing it for battle with Absalom, and those with him, 2Sa 18:1-5; and of the defeat and flight of the rebels, 2Sa 18:6-8; and of the death of Absalom, and the manner of it, and of his burial, 2Sa 18:9-18; and of the news of it brought to David by different persons, 2Sa 18:19-32; and of his great grief and sorrow on that account, 2Sa 18:33.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "smitten"