⁶ 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!”

²⁴ And it shall be, when you ^(A)hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then ^(B)the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

The Folly of Not Trusting God

²⁹ Now a chariot that was imported from Egypt cost six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse one hundred and fifty; ^(A)and ^[a]thus, through their agents, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

⁹ And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was ^(A)like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.

⁵ And the ^(A)sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like ^(B)the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

⁹ How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

^2 (A)And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord, ³ with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—^(B)the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.