2 Samuel - 18:8 Meaning
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
18:1-8 How does David render good for evil! Absalom would have only David smitten; David would have only Absalom spared. This seems to be a resemblance of man's wickedness towards God, and God's mercy to man, of which it is hard to say which is most amazing. Now the Israelites see what it is to take counsel against the Lord and his anointed.
“There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.”