So the people went out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle was in the [a]wood of Ephraim:

Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David: so there was a great slaughter that day, even of twenty thousand.

¶ For the battle was scattered over all the country: and the wood devoured much more people that day than did the sword.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:6 So called, because the Ephraimites (as some say) fed their cattle beyond Jordan in this wood.

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