8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. …
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Which way David raised an army here, and what reinforcements were sent him, we are not told; many, it is likely, from all the coasts of Israel, at least from the neighbouring tribes, came in to his assistance, so that, by degrees, he was able to make head against Absalom, as Ahithophel foresaw. Now here we have, I. His army numbered and marshalled, 2 Sam. 18:1 , 2 . He had, no doubt, committed his…
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