So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
Parallel translations
- KJV So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
- BSB So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.
- NKJV So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven.
- NASB So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven.
- NLT So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle continued to rage even beyond Beth-aven.
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Quick answer
The narrator credits the victory plainly to the Lord: 'Yahweh saved Israel that day.'
Overview
This summary statement makes the theology of the chapter explicit, the deliverance is God's work, not Saul's or even Jonathan's alone. The salvation accomplished by faith through few becomes a national rescue. It points forward to the greater salvation God works through Christ, where deliverance is entirely the Lord's doing, received by faith.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Exod 14:30Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
- 1 Sam 13:5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- Ps 44:6–8For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
- Hos 1:7But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
- 2 Kgs 14:27Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
- Judg 2:18When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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