In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched ¹  up against Samaria ²  and besieged it.

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

The sovereign Lord says this: “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers ¹  will have only a hundred left; the town ²  that marches out with a hundred soldiers ³  will have only ten left for the family of Israel.” ⁴ 

¹ The Israelites traveled on ²  and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River ³  across from Jericho. ⁴ 

About forty thousand battle-ready troops ¹  marched past the Lord to fight ²  on the plains of Jericho. ³ 

Joshua and all Israel marched from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against it. ¹ 

Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops ¹  and fought against it.

Joshua and all Israel marched from Lachish to Eglon. They deployed troops ¹  and fought against it.

But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he was the one leading them out to battle and back.

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

At that time the generals ¹  of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city. ² 

Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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

They entered Jerusalem to the sound of stringed instruments and trumpets and proceeded to the temple of the Lord.

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion. ¹ 

to the one who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures,

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

From you, O Nineveh, ¹  one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist. ² 

Disarming ¹  the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross. ² 

All his servants were leaving with him, ¹  along with all the Kerethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites – some six hundred men who had come on foot from Gath. They were leaving with ²  the king.