2 Samuel 18:8

8 La batalla se extendió con furor por todo el campo, y perecieron en el bosque más hombres que los que murieron a espada.

2 Samuel 18:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:8

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the
country
Or the warriors were scattered, as the Targum; Absalom's soldiers, their ranks were broken, and they were thrown into the utmost confusion, and ran about here and there all over the field or plain in which the battle was fought, and into the neighbouring wood:

and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured;
there were more slain in it the in the field of battle, what by one thing or another; as by falling into pits and on stumps of trees, and being entangled in the bushes, and could make but little haste, and so were overtaken by David's men, and slain; insomuch that, as Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 observes, there were more slain fleeing than fighting, and perhaps some might perish by wild beasts; so the Targum,

``and the beasts of the wood slew more of the people than were slain by the sword;''

and so the Syriac and Arabic versions render the words to the same purpose.

F8 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 10. sect. 2.)

2 Samuel 18:8 In-Context

6 Así que comenzó la batalla en el bosque de Efraín,

7 y los hombres de David rechazaron los ataques de las tropas israelitas. Aquel día hubo una gran matanza, y veinte mil hombres perdieron la vida.

8 La batalla se extendió con furor por todo el campo, y perecieron en el bosque más hombres que los que murieron a espada.

9 Durante la batalla, Absalón se cruzó con algunos hombres de David. Trató de escapar en su mula, pero al pasar cabalgando debajo de un gran árbol, su cabello
se enredó en las gruesas ramas. La mula siguió y dejó a Absalón suspendido en el aire.

10 Entonces uno de los hombres de David vio lo que había pasado y le dijo a Joab:
—Vi a Absalón colgando de un gran árbol.