10 The Lord threw them into confusion(A) before Israel,(B) so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon.(C) Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon(D) and cut them down all the way to Azekah(E) and Makkedah.(F)

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14 He shot his arrows(A) and scattered the enemy,
    with great bolts of lightning(B) he routed them.(C)

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This was the territory of Ephraim, according to its clans:

The boundary of their inheritance went from Ataroth Addar(A) in the east to Upper Beth Horon(B)

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descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the region of Lower Beth Horon(A) and on to Gezer,(B) ending at the Mediterranean Sea.

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21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,(A)
    he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon(B)
to do his work,(C) his strange work,
    and perform his task, his alien task.

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10 While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the Lord thundered(A) with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic(B) that they were routed before the Israelites. 11 The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Kar.

12 Then Samuel took a stone(C) and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,[a](D) saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 7:12 Ebenezer means stone of help.

15 At Barak’s advance, the Lord routed(A) Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

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11 As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones(A) down on them,(B) and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.

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while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out—Lachish(A) and Azekah.(B) These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.

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55 He drove out nations(A) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;(B)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

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It was not by their sword(A) that they won the land,
    nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand,(B) your arm,(C)
    and the light(D) of your face, for you loved(E) them.

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12 The Lord struck down(A) the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

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18 another toward Beth Horon,(A) and the third toward the borderland overlooking the Valley of Zeboyim(B) facing the wilderness.

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22 Kibzaim and Beth Horon,(A) together with their pasturelands—four towns.(B)

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41 Gederoth,(A) Beth Dagon,(B) Naamah and Makkedah(C)—sixteen towns and their villages.

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16 the king of Makkedah(A)one
the king of Bethel(B)one
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and the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon,(A) to Misrephoth Maim,(B) and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left.

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Southern Cities Conquered

28 That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors.(A) And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.(B)

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23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.(A)

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