When the sons of Israel fled from Judah, God handed them over to them.
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
- KJV And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
- BSB So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.
- NKJV And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
- NLT The Israelite army fled from Judah, and God handed them over to Judah in defeat.
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Quick answer
Israel flees before Judah, and God delivers them into Judah's hand. The rout is attributed directly to God's action.
Overview
The northern army breaks and flees as God hands them over to Judah. The Chronicler stresses divine agency: it is God who delivers the enemy into Judah's hand. This confirms that the victory rests entirely on the LORD's faithfulness to those who rely on him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 2 Chr 16:8Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
- 1 Sam 23:7Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
- Josh 10:12Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
- Josh 21:44Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
- Judg 11:21Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
- Deut 3:3So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people. We struck him until no one was left to him remaining.
- Judg 1:4Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
- Deut 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.
- Gen 14:20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
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