^34 (A)quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, ^(B)became mighty in war, ^(C)put foreign armies to flight.

¹⁶ He said, “Do not be afraid, ^(A)for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” ¹⁷ Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please ^(B)open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of ^(C)horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. ¹⁸ And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” ^(D)So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.

⁵¹ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine ^(A)and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, ^(B)they fled. ⁵² And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath^[a] and the gates of ^(C)Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from ^(D)Shaaraim as far as ^(E)Gath and Ekron.

⁸ And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the ^(A)cleft of the rock of Etam.

³² Elisha was sitting in his house, ^(A)and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this ^(B)murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”

³ Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to ^(A)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

¹⁵ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. ¹⁶ And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond ^(A)the Euphrates.^[a] They came to Helam, with ^(B)Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head. ¹⁷ And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him. ¹⁸ And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded ^(C)Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there. ¹⁹ And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel ^(D)and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.

⁴ And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and ^(A)the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing. ⁵ So he said to the men of ^(B)Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.” ⁶ And the officials of Succoth said, ^(C)“Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, ^(D)that we should give bread to your army?” ⁷ So Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, ^(E)I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.” ⁸ And from there he went up to ^(F)Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. ⁹ And he said to the men of Penuel, ^(G)“When I come again in peace, ^(H)I will break down this tower.”

¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of ^(I)the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men ^(J)who drew the sword.