²² For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁸ with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

¹⁰ One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

³¹ What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

⁴¹ These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

²⁶ As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,