"Than the sword"

1. 2 Sam. 18: 8
     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. Alma 31: 5
     5 And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.