When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude, and they saw only dead bodies fallen to the earth. No one had escaped.
‘While men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city,
Then the Angel of YHWH went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people arose early in the morning, there were all dead bodies!
should we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies with precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
That night, the Angel of YHWH went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, there were all the dead bodies!