1 Chronicles 5:22 KJV — MannaFest

1 Chronicles 5:22

For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

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ASV

For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.

WEB

and many others fell slain, because the battle belonged to God. And they occupied the land until the exile.

YLT

for many have fallen pierced, for of God is the battle; and they dwell in their stead till the removal.

DBT

For there fell down many slain, for the war was ofGod. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.

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1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?

Author: The Chronicler (traditional — Ezra, per rabbinic tradition)
Date: Post-exilic, c. 450–400 BC

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1 Chronicles 5:20
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 battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Joshua 23:10
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

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These, who were skilled in archery, were invaded in the time of Joshua by a confederate army of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh, who, probably incensed by the frequent raids of those marauding neighbors, took reprisals in men and cattle, dispossessed almost all of the original inhabitants, and colonized the district themselves.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

), and all this because the war was of God, undertaken in his fear and carried on in a dependence upon him. If the battle be the Lord's, there is reason to hope it will be successful.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Was of God - Undertaken in his fear, and carried on in a dependence on him. Then we may expect to prosper in any enterprize, and then only, when we take God along with us.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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