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The people of Israel are struck before David’s servants in the forest of Ephraim

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2 Samuel 18:6–8: so the people go out into the field against Israel; and the battle is in the forest of Ephraim. The people of Israel are struck there before David’s servants, and there is a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. For the battle is there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devours more people that day than the sword devours.

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2SA 18:6–8, engwebp
⁶So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
⁷The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
⁸For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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The people of Israel are struck before David’s servants in the forest of Ephraim — Narrated location — Forest of Ephraim

Evidence: 2 Samuel 18:6–8

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Entry: The people of Israel are struck before David’s servants in the forest of Ephraim (event-2sa-18-the-battle-in-the-forest-of-ephraim)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/2sa-18-the-battle-in-the-forest-of-ephraim
Current wording: 2 Samuel 18:6–8: so the people go out into the field against Israel; and the battle is in the forest of Ephraim. The people of Israel are struck there before David’s servants, and there is a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. For the battle is there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devours more people that day than the sword devours.
Cited evidence: 2SA 18:6–8, engwebp
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