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25 He clogged[a] their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty. The Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the Israelites, for the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.”(A)

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  1. 14.25 Sam Gk Syr: MT removed

14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.”(A)

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The Destruction of Israel

I saw the Lord standing beside[a] the altar, and he said:

Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake
    and shatter them on the heads of all the people,[b]
and those who are left I will kill with the sword;
    not one of them shall flee away,
    not one of them shall escape.(A)

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  1. 9.1 Or on
  2. 9.1 Heb all of them

19     as if someone fled from a lion
    and was met by a bear
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall
    and was bitten by a snake.(A)

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21 with you I smash the horse and its rider;
    with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;

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At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
    both rider and horse lay stunned.

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12     “The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!”
The women at home divide the spoil,(A)

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22 It[a] hurls at them without pity;
    they flee from its[b] power in headlong flight.(A)

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  1. 27.22 Or He (that is, God)
  2. 27.22 Or his

24 They will flee from an iron weapon;
    a bronze arrow will strike them through.(A)

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the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “Gods have[a] come into the camp.” They also said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

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  1. 4.7 Or A god has

22 Do not fear them, for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.’(A)

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He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
    he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields with fire.(A)

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20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail;
    all way of escape will be lost to them,
    and their hope is to breathe their last.”(A)

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14 So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah,
    and it shall devour its strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    with a storm on the day of the whirlwind;(A)

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15 And the Lord threw Sisera and all his chariots and all his army into a panic[a] before Barak; Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot,(A)

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  1. 4.15 Heb adds to the sword