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For 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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Verse 8. Country; people fighting in great numbers. But the army of Absalom was soon dispersed. Bible.—Consumed, that is by pits and precipices: Challoner. “wild beasts.” Syr. and so forth 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. Bible.
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