then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?

Moreover, the Lord says to the people of Zion, “Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.

He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated Syria.

The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.

It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint.

And I cried out, “We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought, ‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!’

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’

“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.

The Lord routed them before Israel. Israel thoroughly defeated them at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

Too bad for us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!

So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.