So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
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So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
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So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
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So the LORD saved Israel that day; and the battle passed on as far as Beth-aven.
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 14:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 14:30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- Psalms 44:6-8 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.
- Hosea 1:7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
- Judges 2:18 When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
- 2 Kings 14:27 Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day:…
1Sa 14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
Ver. 23. So the Lord saved Israel.] Immediately, and for no merit of theirs. See 1Sa 14:20.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The battle, i.e. the warriors who were engaged in…
The battle, i.e. the warriors who were engaged in the battle, and were pursuing and fighting with the Philistines.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So the Lord saved Israel that day, &c. And…
So the Lord saved Israel that day, &c. And a wonderful salvation it was, that two men should throw such a vast army into confusion, which issued in the utter rout and destruction of them; this only could be of the Lord, to whom it is justly ascribed, and was the effect of his sovereign good will and pleasure, and of his unmerited goodness; a free favour bestowed on an undeserving prince, who had behaved ill to his prophet at Gilgal, and now to him and his high priest at Gibeah:
and the battle passed over unto Bethaven; the men of battle or war; those that made war, as the Targum, these pursued and went as far as Bethaven, or rather "passed Bethaven" (q); they not only, went as far as that, but "from" it, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel interpret it; they passed that place, and went on from thence in pursuit of the Philistines; for their camp at Michmash was eastward from this place, and had it on the east, Sa1 13:5.
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(q) "transiit Bethaven", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "vel, beliatores transierunt Bethaven", Pagninus, Vatablus, Drusius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The battle - That is, the warriors who were…
The battle - That is, the warriors who were engaged in the battle, and were pursuing the Philistines. Yet it is said, the Lord saved Israel that day: he did it by them: for without him they could do nothing. Salvation is of the Lord.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 14:23. The Lord saved Israel that day —…
1Sa 14:23. The Lord saved Israel that day — Their deliverance was evidently effected by him, and that by means very extraordinary, and such as could have produced no such effect without his almighty power working thereby. The battle passed over unto Beth-aven — That is, the warriors that were engaged in the battle, and were pursuing the Philistines.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Bethaven. They pursued the stragglers thither, as well as…
CHAPTER XIV.
Bethaven. They pursued the stragglers thither, as well as to Aialon, ver. 31. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the…
So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven--that is, "Beth-el." It passed over the forest, now destroyed, on the central ridge of Palestine, then over to the other side from the eastern pass of Michmash (Sa1 14:31), to the western pass of Aijalon, through which they escaped into their own plains.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. The battle passed over unto Beth-aven — Rather,…
23. The battle passed over unto Beth-aven — Rather, passed beyond Beth-aven. Assuming that Beth-aven lay west of Michmash, (see on 1Sa_13:5,) we suppose the Philistines were chased beyond this place on their way to Aijalon. 1Sa_14:31.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. So the Lord saved Israel] Cp. Exo_14:30; 2Ch_32:22.
23. So the Lord saved Israel] Cp. Exo_14:30; 2Ch_32:22.
unto Beth-aven] Saul crossed the valley from Geba to Michmash, and drove the Philistines back in a north-westerly direction to Beth-aven, half way between Michmash and Bethel. Thence the pursuit was across the watershed, and headlong down the pass of Beth-horon to Aijalon, where the valley begins to open out towards the plain of Philistia:—that same pass where Joshua gained his great victory over the five Amorite kings (Jos_10:10), and where the valiant Judas Maccabaeus was once more in later times to drive back the enemies of Israel to the plains (1Ma_3:24). The whole distance was between 15 and 20 miles.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) So the Lord saved Israel . . .—The…
(23) So the Lord saved Israel . . .—The identical words used at the Red Sea, after the deliverance of the people from Egypt. So the battle rolled westward through Beth-aven, past city and village, over Mount Ephraim. It was a decisive victory, crushing in its results to the Philistines, who were driven back so effectually as not to re-appear till the close of Saul’s reign. The king was now at liberty to develop the military character of the people; and till the disaster which closed his life and reign, his various campaigns against the idolatrous nations who surrounded Israel generally appear to have gone on from victory to victory.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Over unto Beth-aven. Hebrew, "the battle passed Bethaven," i.e.…
Over unto Beth-aven. Hebrew, "the battle passed Bethaven," i.e. no rally was made there. In ver. 31 we read that the pursuit continued as far as Aijalon. For Beth-aven see on 1Sa_13:5.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:23 It was God, not Saul, who saved Israel;…
14:23 It was God, not Saul, who saved Israel; Jonathan was just a willing instrument in the Lord’s hands. • Beth-aven was due west of Micmash (see 13:5). The Israelites forced the Philistines to retreat all the way to Aijalon that day (see 14:31).
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