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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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6So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

7There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

8The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

9Now 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.

10When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

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