1 Chronicles 10:3
Hebrew Text— 1 Chronicles 10:3The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
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Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.
When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Zebah and Zalmunna fled and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
“Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.