During the time of Saul they attacked the Hagrites and defeated them. They took over their territory in the entire eastern region of Gilead.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

When David<n id="1" /> went to Ziklag, the men of Manasseh who joined him were Adnach, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, leaders of a thousand soldiers each in the tribe of Manasseh.

Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them;<n id="1" /> 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah<n id="1" /> and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> and worshiped him.<n id="2" />

When the men of Judah<n id="1" /> arrived at the observation post overlooking the desert and looked at<n id="2" /> the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!

You defeated Edom<n id="1" /> and it has gone to your head.<n id="2" /> Gloat over your success,<n id="3" /> but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who performed the king&#8217;s business were assisting the Jews, for the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast <i>puri> (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.

and the Sabeans<n id="1" /> swooped down<n id="2" /> and carried them all away, and they killed<n id="3" /> the servants with the sword!<n id="4" /> And I &#8211; only I alone<n id="5" /> &#8211; escaped to tell you!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I also have understanding<n id="1" /> as well as you;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior to you.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who does not know such things as these?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Jerusalem certainly stumbles,p> <p class="poetry">Judah falls,p> <p class="poetry">for their words and their actions offend the <sc>Lordsc>;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they rebel against his royal authority.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners,p> <p class="poetry">or to fall among those who have been killed.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Despite all this, his anger does not subside,p> <p class="poetry">and his hand is ready to strike again.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">So I weep along with Jazer<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">over the vines of Sibmah.p> <p class="poetry">I will saturate you<n id="2" /> with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh,p> <p class="poetry">for the conquering invaders shout triumphantlyp> <p class="poetry">over your fruit and crops.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth will stagger around<n id="1" /> like a drunk;p> <p class="poetry">it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Its sin will weigh it down,p> <p class="poetry">and it will fall and never get up again.p>

<p class="poetry">We were pregnant, we strained,p> <p class="poetry">we gave birth, as it were, to wind.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">We cannot produce deliverance on the earth;p> <p class="poetry">people to populate the world are not born.<n id="2" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Your dead will come back to life;p> <p class="poetry">your corpses will rise up.p> <p class="poetry">Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">So this sin will become your downfall.p> <p class="poetry">You will be like a high wallp> <p class="poetry">that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;p> <p class="poetry">it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">On every high mountainp> <p class="poetry">and every high hillp> <p class="poetry">there will be streams flowing with water,p> <p class="poetry">at the time of<n id="1" /> great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.p>

<p class="poetry">The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;p> <p class="poetry">their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will strike with<n id="1" /> his hand;p> <p class="poetry">the one who helps will stumblep> <p class="poetry">and the one being helped will fall.p> <p class="poetry">Together they will perish.<n id="2" />p>