How do trees kill people? 2 Samuel 18:8

How do trees kill people? 2 Samuel 18:8

In other words, how did the forest claim more men than the sword? (2 Samuel 18:8)

6 David’s army marched out of the city to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim. 7 There Israel’s troops were routed by David’s men, and the casualties that day were great—twenty thousand men. 8 The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.

2 Samuel 18 King James Version (KJV)

8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

2 Samuel 18:8

ESV - ⁸ The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.

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