^34 (A)quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

¹⁶ So he answered, ^(A)“Do not fear, for ^(B)those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” ¹⁷ And Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord ^(C)opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of ^(D)horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. ¹⁸ So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And ^(E)He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

⁵¹ Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his ^(A)sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.

And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, ^(B)they fled. ⁵² Now the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of ^[a]the valley and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to ^(C)Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and Ekron.

⁸ So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of ^(A)Etam.

³² But Elisha was sitting in his house, and ^(A)the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, ^(B)“Do you see how this son of ^(C)a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

³ And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

¹⁵ When the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered together. ¹⁶ Then ^[a]Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond ^[b]the River, and they came to Helam. And ^[c]Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army went before them. ¹⁷ When it was told David, he gathered all Israel, crossed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in battle array against David and fought with him. ¹⁸ Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand ^(A)horsemen of the Syrians, and struck Shobach the commander of their army, who died there. ¹⁹ And when all the kings who were servants to ^[d]Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and ^(B)served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the people of Ammon anymore.

⁴ When Gideon came ^(A)to the Jordan, he and ^(B)the three hundred men who were with him crossed over, exhausted but still in pursuit. ⁵ Then he said to the men of ^(C)Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.”

⁶ And the leaders of Succoth said, ^(D)“Are^[a] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that ^(E)we should give bread to your army?”

⁷ So Gideon said, “For this cause, when the Lord has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, ^(F)then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers!” ⁸ Then he went up from there ^(G)to Penuel and spoke to them in the same way. And the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. ⁹ So he also spoke to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I ^(H)come back in peace, ^(I)I will tear down this tower!”

¹⁰ Now Zebah and Zalmunna were at Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of ^(J)all the army of the people of the East; for ^(K)one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword had fallen.