²⁴ Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men,^(A) the Lord delivered into their hands a much larger army.^(B) Because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, judgment was executed on Joash.

³ “I will send four kinds of destroyers^(A) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword^(B) to kill and the dogs^(C) to drag away and the birds^(D) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.^(E)

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments^(A)—sword^(B) and famine^(C) and wild beasts and plague^(D)—to kill its men and their animals!^(E)