For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
2 Samuel 18:8
Surrounding context
18:7 The people of Israel were overthrown there before the servants of David, and a great slaughter of twenty thousand took place there that day.
18:8 For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:9 Then Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught in the terebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on.