24 Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, (A)the Lord delivered into their hand a very great army, (B)because Judah[a] had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they (C)executed judgment on Joash.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:24 Hebrew they

17 (A)A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
    at the threat of five you shall flee,
till you are left
    like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
    like a signal on a hill.

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(A)And when Jehu was (B)executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.

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25 (A)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (B)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And (A)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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25 And (A)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (B)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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(A)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

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Habakkuk's Second Complaint

12 Are you not (A)from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    (B)We shall not die.
O Lord, (C)you have ordained them as a judgment,
    and you, O (D)Rock, have established them for reproof.

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10 (A)For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and (B)burn this city with fire.’”

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(A)They come from a distant land,
    from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
    to destroy the whole land.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!
Against a (B)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (C)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to (D)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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Joash's Treachery

20 (A)Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah (B)the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, (C)‘Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? (D)Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’”

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11 behold, they reward us (A)by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will you not (B)execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but (C)our eyes are on you.”

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Were not (A)the Ethiopians and (B)the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet (C)because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand. (D)For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those (E)whose heart is blameless[a] toward him. (F)You have done foolishly in this, for from now on (G)you will have wars.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 16:9 Or whole

30 How could (A)one have chased a thousand,
    and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock (B)had sold them,
    and the Lord had given them up?

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48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (A)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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