1 Chronicles 5:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For a great number fell mortally wounded, because the battle was God's. And [these Israelites] dwelt in their territory until the captivity [by Assyria more than five centuries later]. [II Kings 15:29.] American Standard Version (1901) For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity. Common English Bible Many died, because God fought the battle. They lived there in place of the inhabitants until the exile. Catholic Public Domain Version And many fell down wounded. For it was a war of the Lord. And they lived in place of them, until the transmigration. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And many fell down slain: for it was the battle of the Lord. And they dwelt in their stead till the captivity. |
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed them utterly, unto this day, and dwelt in their stead: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.
As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son;
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you.