1 Samuel 14:23

New King James Version

So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven.

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.

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.

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 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 Now the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and there was the multitude, melting away; and they went here and there. ¹⁷ Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Now call the roll and see who has gone from us." And when they had called the roll, surprisingly, Jonathan and his armorbearer were not there. ¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark [fn] of God here" (for at that time the ark [fn] of God was with the children of Israel). ¹⁹ Now it happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the noise which was in the camp of the Philistines continued to increase; so Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." ²⁰ Then Saul and all the people who were with him assembled, and they went to the battle; and indeed every man's sword was against his neighbor, and there was very great confusion. ²¹ Moreover the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp from the surrounding country, they also joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. ²² Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden in the mountains of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, they also followed hard after them in the battle. ²³ So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven.

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
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, [fn] Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar--four kings against five.

Genesis 14:12
They also took Lot, Abram's brother's son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14:15
He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his servants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

Genesis 14:16
So he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people.

1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place.

2 Kings 5:16
But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him."

2 Corinthians 12:14
Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Hebrews 13:5
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6, 8; Joshua 1:5">[fn]

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.