⁹ “‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows,^(A) the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.^{(B) 10} They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder^(C) those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(D)

³ Then I will strike your bow^(A) from your left hand and make your arrows^(B) drop from your right hand. ⁴ On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds^(C) and to the wild animals.^(D)

³⁶ Then the angel^(D) of the Lord went out and put to death^(E) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian^(F) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

²¹ And the Lord sent an angel,^(A) who annihilated all the fighting men and the commanders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons, his own flesh and blood, cut him down with the sword.^(B)

²⁵ So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing^[a] and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it.

¹² The Lord struck down^(A) the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled, ¹³ and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar.^(B) Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were crushed^(C) before the Lord and his forces. The men of Judah carried off a large amount of plunder.^(D)