1 Chronicles 5:22 - Revised Standard Version For many fell slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the exile. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Jan-oah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Me-unim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
They carried off their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men alive.
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Me-unites.
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 took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, as he promised you.