1 Chronicles 5:20
They received divine help against them. In this way, the Hagrites and all who were with them were defeated. This was because the Israelites cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to them, because they put their trust in him.
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19They attacked the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
Cross References
Genesis 49:19Gad—raiders will attack him, 1 but he will attack them at their heels. 2
Joshua 10:14There has been no other day like it before or after it, when Yahweh obeyed the voice of a human being. For Yahweh was waging war on behalf of Israel.
Joshua 23:10Any single man of your number will make a thousand run away, for Yahweh your God, is the one who fights for you, just as he promised you.
1 Samuel 19:15Then Saul sent the messengers to see David; he said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I may kill him.”
1 Kings 22:32It came about that when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel.” They turned to attack him, so Jehoshaphat cried out.
2 Chronicles 13:13But Jeroboam prepared an ambush behind them; his army was in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
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 →