1 Samuel 14:23

Easy-to-Read Version

So the Lord saved the Israelites that day. The battle moved on past Beth Aven. The whole army was with Saul—he now had about 10,000 men. The battle spread to every city in the hill country of Ephraim.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Lord saved Israel that day.

Hebrew Names Version
So the LORD saved Yisra'el that day: and the battle passed over by Beit-Aven.

King James Version
So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.

Lexham English Bible
So on that day Yahweh delivered Israel, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven.

English Standard Version
So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.

New Century Version
So the Lord saved the Israelites that day, and the battle moved on past Beth Aven.

New English Translation
So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle shifted over to Beth Aven.

Amplified Bible
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven.

New American Standard Bible
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And so the Lord saued Israel that day: and the battell continued vnto Beth-auen.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh saved Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven.

Contemporary English Version
So the Lord helped Israel win the battle that day. Saul had earlier told his soldiers, "I want to get even with those Philistines by sunset. If any of you eat before then, you will be under a curse!" So he made them swear not to eat. By the time the fighting moved past Beth-Aven, the Israelite troops were weak from hunger.

Complete Jewish Bible
So Adonai saved Isra'el that day, and the battle spread as far as Beit-Aven.

Darby Translation
And Jehovah saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over beyond Beth-Aven.

George Lamsa Translation
So the LORD saved Israel that day; then the men of Israel passed over to Beth-aon to battle.

Good News Translation
fighting all the way beyond Bethaven. The Lord saved Israel that day.

Literal Translation
And Jehovah saved Israel that day. And the battle passed over to Beth-aven.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus ye LORDE helped Israel at that tyme, and ye battayll lasted vnto Bethauen.

American Standard Version
So Jehovah saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth-aven.

Bible in Basic English
So the Lord made Israel safe that day: and the fight went over to Beth-aven.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the Lorde saued Israel that day: and the battel continued vnto Bethauen.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the LORD saved Israel that day; and the battle passed on as far as Beth-aven.

King James Version (1611)
So the Lord saued Israel that day: and the battell passed ouer vnto Beth-auen.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the battle extended itself to every city in the mount Ephraim.

English Revised Version
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth–aven.

Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord sauyde Israel in that day. Sotheli the batel cam til to Bethauen.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saveth Israel on that day, and the battle hath passed over to Beth-Aven.

Update Bible Version
So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth-aven.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over to Beth-aven.

World English Bible
So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth-aven.

New King James Version
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven.

New Living Translation
So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle continued to rage even beyond Beth-aven.

New Life Bible
So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle spread farther than Beth-aven.

New Revised Standard
So the Lord gave Israel the victory that day. The battle passed beyond Beth-aven, and the troops with Saul numbered altogether about ten thousand men. The battle spread out over the hill country of Ephraim.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus did Yahweh, on that day, save Israel, - and, the battle, passed over by Beth-aven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord saved Israel that day. And the fight went on as far as Bethaven.

Revised Standard Version
So the LORD delivered Israel that day; and the battle passed beyond Beth-a'ven.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the LORD delivered Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Saul's guards at Gibeah in the land of Benjamin saw the Philistine soldiers running away in different ways. ¹⁷ Saul said to the army with him, "Count the men. I want to know who left camp." They counted the men. Jonathan and his helper were gone. ¹⁸ Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring God's Holy Box!" (At that time God's Holy Box was there with the Israelites.) ¹⁹ Saul was talking to Ahijah the priest waiting for advice from God . But the noise and confusion in the Philistine camp was growing and growing. Saul was becoming impatient. Finally, he said to Ahijah the priest, "That's enough. Put your hand down and stop praying ." ²⁰ Saul gathered his army together and went to the battle. The Philistine soldiers were very confused. They were even fighting each other with their swords. ²¹ There were Hebrews who served the Philistines in the past and who stayed in the Philistine camp. But now these Hebrews joined the Israelites with Saul and Jonathan. ²² All the Israelites who had hidden in the hill country of Ephraim heard the Philistine soldiers were running away. So these Israelites also joined in the battle and began chasing the Philistines. ²³ So the Lord saved the Israelites that day. The battle moved on past Beth Aven. The whole army was with Saul—he now had about 10,000 men. The battle spread to every city in the hill country of Ephraim.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Exodus 14:30, Judges 2:18, 2 Kings 14:27, Psalms 44:6-8, Hosea 1:7

Bethaven: 1 Samuel 13:5

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:45 - who hath 2 Samuel 23:10 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 11:14 - and the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 14:9
They fought against King Kedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar. So there were four kings fighting against five.

Genesis 14:12
Lot, the son of Abram's brother, was living in Sodom, and they captured him. They also took everything he owned and left.

Genesis 14:15
That night he and his men made a surprise attack against the enemy. They defeated them and chased them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

Genesis 14:16
Then Abram brought back everything the enemy had stolen, as well as the women and servants, his nephew Lot, and everything Lot owned.

1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, "I will not go home with you, even if you give me half of your kingdom! I will not eat or drink anything in this place.

2 Kings 5:16
But Elisha said, "The Lord is the one I serve, and as surely as he lives, I will not accept any gift." Naaman tried hard to make Elisha take the gift, but he refused.

2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my master has let Naaman the Aramean go without accepting the gift that he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after Naaman and get something from him."

2 Corinthians 12:14
I am now ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don't want any of the things you own. I only want you. Children should not have to save things to give to their parents. Parents should save to give to their children.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money. And be satisfied with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never run away from you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the Lord saved Israel that day, c] And a wonderful salvation it was, that two men should throw such a vast army into confusion, which issued in the utter rout and destruction of them this only could be of the Lord, to whom it is justly ascribed, and was the effect of his sovereign good will and pleasure, and of his unmerited goodness; a free favour bestowed on an undeserving prince, who had behaved ill to his prophet at Gilgal, and now to him and his high priest at Gibeah:

and the battle passed over unto Bethaven; the men of battle or war; those that made war, as the Targum, these pursued and went as far as Bethaven, or rather "passed Bethaven" q; they not only, went as far as that, but "from" it, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel interpret it; they passed that place, and went on from thence in pursuit of the Philistines; for their camp at Michmash was eastward from this place, and had it on the east, 1 Samuel 13:5.

q עברה את בית און "transiit Bethaven", Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "vel, beliatores transierunt Bethaven", Pagninus, Vatablus, Drusius.