2 SAMUEL 18:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
The battle spread over the whole region, and the forest devoured more of the army than the sword did on that day — The forest itself becomes an agent of death: soldiers are lost in the dense vegetation, trapped, and killed. The personification of the forest as devouring suggests that geography is as deadly as combat. More soldiers die to the forest than to weapons—a tragic detail that emphasizes the chaos and confusion of battle.
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