1 Chronicles 5:20
And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.
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19And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.
Cross References
Genesis 49:19Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.
Joshua 10:14And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.
Joshua 23:10One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.
1 Samuel 19:15And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.
1 Kings 22:32So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.
2 Chronicles 13:13But Jeroboam had put some of his men to make a surprise attack on them from the back, so some were facing Judah and others were stationed secretly at their back.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 5:19-26
The Defeat of the Hagarites. ( b. c. 750.) 18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the… Read the whole commentary →