the face. Figure of speech Pleonasm, with Prosopopceia. App-6. devoured. Hebrew "multiplied to devour", to emphasise the great number. Figure of speech Prosopopaia. App-6.
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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.