For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
All Commentaries on 2 Samuel 18:8 Go To 2 Samuel 18
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Country; people fighting in great numbers. But the army of Absalom was soon dispersed. (Haydock)
Consumed, viz., by pits and precipices: (Challoner) "wild beasts. "(Syriac) Many also died of their wounds, and were slain in the wood; (Calmet) so that not less, probably, than 50,000 perished on this fatal day. (Haydock)
