(4:14) ¹  But now slash yourself, ²  daughter surrounded by soldiers! ³  We are besieged! With a scepter ⁴  they strike Israel’s ruler ⁵  on the side of his face.

His troops ¹  advance together; they throw up ²  a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

They are joined by ¹  Gomer with all its troops, and by Beth Togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops – many peoples are with you. ² 

All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

Then Joab blew the trumpet ¹  and the army turned back from chasing Israel, for Joab had called for the army to halt.

The ¹  number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; ²  I heard their number.

I chose ¹  the way for them ²  and sat as their chief; ³  I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners. ⁴ 

You will advance; ¹  you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.

Then, when the officers have finished speaking, ¹  they must appoint unit commanders ²  to lead the troops.

He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons ¹  throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

All the choice men ¹  among his troops will die ²  by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!

I will judge him with plague and bloodshed. I will rain down on him, his troops and the many peoples who are with him a torrential downpour, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.

As you move forward for battle, the priest ¹  will approach and say to the soldiers, ² 

So Joab and his men ¹  marched toward the Arameans to do battle, and they fled before him.

You bring new witnesses ¹  against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops ²  come against me.

Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind. ¹  The main army was in front of the Judahite army; ²  the ambushers were behind it.

David again assembled ¹  all the best ²  men in Israel, thirty thousand in number.

From Asher there were 40,000 warriors prepared for battle.

Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. ¹  The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. ²  They will have no strength to prevail.