The wood devoured more. — The battle and the pursuit covered a wide range of country; more were slain in the pursuit through the wood, both by accident and by the sword, than in the actual battle itself.
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2 Samuel 18:8
8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devouredb more people that day than the sword devoured.