Then Ben-Hadad sent word to him again saying, “May the gods do so to me and even more, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people at my feet.”
Jeremiah 46:17 - Tree of Life Version They cried there: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise! He let the opportune time pass.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is only a noise; he has let the appointed time [in which God had him on probation] pass by! American Standard Version (1901) They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by. Common English Bible There they call Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, Loudmouth—Nothing But Hot Air! Catholic Public Domain Version Call the name of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt: 'Time has brought tumult.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt: a tumult time hath brought. |
Then Ben-Hadad sent word to him again saying, “May the gods do so to me and even more, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people at my feet.”
The king of Israel answered and said, “Tell him: ‘Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.”
He said, “Whether they are coming out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are coming out for battle, take them alive.”
You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
The enemy said, “I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall gorge on them! I will draw my sword— my hand will destroy them.”
For everything there is a season and a time for every activity under heaven:
Now Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh, not spirit. When Adonai stretches out His hand, both he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall, and both will perish together.
speak and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great crocodile lying in his rivers, who says: “My Nile is my own —I made it for myself.”
‘Who is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’ This is Pharaoh and all his multitude.” It is a declaration of Adonai.