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

⁶ For ^(A)the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, 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.”