1 Kings 20:29
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For seven days they camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle was joined. The Israelites inflicted a hundred thousand casualties on the Aramean foot soldiers in one day.
Read 1 Kings 20:29 Using Other Translations
And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the people of Israel struck down of the Syrians 100,000 foot soldiers in one day.
The two armies camped opposite each other for seven days, and on the seventh day the battle began. The Israelites killed 100,000 Aramean foot soldiers in one day.
What does 1 Kings 20:29 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Kings 20:29
And they pitched one over against the other seven
days
Very probably the Israelites pitched upon an hill, and the
Syrians waited till they changed their position, not caring to
fall upon them, though so very supernumerary to them, for the
reason before given:
and so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was
joined;
or they that made war drew nigh, as the Targum, and both sides
engaged in battle:
and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians 100,000
footmen in one
day;
which was a prodigious slaughter to be made by so small an army;
the hand of the Lord was visible in it.
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