⁵ Then they journeyed on, and there was ^[a](A)a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

⁶ Now ^(A)the Lord had caused the camp of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great military force, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us ^(B)the kings of the Hittites and ^(C)the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”