20 And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

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11 I returned (A)and saw under the sun that—

The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill;
But time and (B)chance happen to them all.

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(A)The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

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16 (A)No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

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36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at (A)Nineveh.

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For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians (A)to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us (B)the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” Therefore they (C)arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives.

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16 And each one grasped his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called [a]the Field of Sharp Swords, which is in Gibeon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:16 Heb. Helkath Hazzurim

16 And when he had brought him down, there they were, spread out over all the land, (A)eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. 17 Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

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13 And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armorbearer after him; and they (A)fell before Jonathan. And as he came after him, his armorbearer killed them. 14 That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about twenty men within about [a]half an acre of land.

15 And (B)there was [b]trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and (C)the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was (D)a very great trembling.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 14:14 Lit. half the area plowed by a yoke of oxen in a day
  2. 1 Samuel 14:15 terror

20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” 21 And (A)every man stood in his place all around the camp; (B)and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. 22 When the three hundred (C)blew the trumpets, (D)the Lord set (E)every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to [a]Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of (F)Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

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  1. Judges 7:22 Heb. Beth Shittah

(A)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

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