Any one of you can make a thousand men run away, because the LORD your God is fighting for you, just as he promised.

He has human power, but we have the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles." The people were encouraged by these words of their king.

In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?

These are Ahimoth's descendants from generation to generation: Elkanah, Zophai, Nahath,

It was while Pekah was king that Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, captured the cities of Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, and the territories of Gilead, Galilee, and Naphtali, and took the people to Assyria as prisoners.

which was the ninth year of the reign of Hoshea, the Assyrian emperor captured Samaria, took the Israelites to Assyria as prisoners, and settled some of them in the city of Halah, some near the Habor River in the district of Gozan and some in the cities of Media.