1 Samuel 14:23

Revised Standard Version

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

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 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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And the watchmen of Saul in Gib'e-ah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude was surging hither and thither. ¹⁷ Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number and see who has gone from us." And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there. ¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahi'jah, "Bring hither the ark of God." For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel. ¹⁹ And while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." ²⁰ Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion. ²¹ Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. ²² Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of E'phraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle. ²³ So the LORD delivered Israel that day; and the battle passed beyond Beth-a'ven.

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
with Ched-or-lao'mer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goi'im, Am'raphel king of Shinar, and Ar'ioch king of Ella'sar, four kings against five.

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

Genesis 14:15
And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

Genesis 14:16
Then he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his goods, and the women and the people.

1 Kings 13:8
And the man of God said to the king, "If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place;

2 Kings 5:16
But he said, "As the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

2 Kings 5:20
Geha'zi, the servant of Eli'sha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Na'aman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and get something from him."

2 Corinthians 12:14
Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never fail you nor forsake 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.