1 Samuel 14:23
◄  1 Samuel 14:23  ►
New International Version (©2011)
So on that day the LORD saved Israel, and the battle moved on beyond Beth Aven.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle continued to rage even beyond Beth-aven.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the LORD saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.

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

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the LORD saved Israel that day. The battle extended beyond Beth-aven,

International Standard Version (©2012)
On that day the LORD delivered Israel, and the battle moved past Beth-aven.

NET Bible (©2006)
So the LORD delivered Israel that day, and the battle shifted over to Beth Aven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the LORD saved Israel that day. Now, the battle moved beyond Beth Aven.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.

American King James Version
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over to Bethaven.

American Standard Version
So Jehovah saved Israel that day: 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.

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

English Revised Version
So the LORD 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.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:16-23 The Philistines were, by the power of God, set against one another. The more evident it was that God did all, the more reason Saul had to inquire whether God would give him leave to do any thing. But he was in such haste to fight a fallen enemy, that he would not stay to end his devotions, nor hear what answer God would give him. He that believeth, will not make such haste, nor reckon any business so urgent, as not to allow time to take God with him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - Over unto Beth-aven. Hebrew, "the battle passed Beth-aven," i.e. no rally was made there. In ver. 31 we read that the pursuit continued as far as Aijalon. For Beth-aven see on 1 Samuel 13:5. SAUL'S RASH COMMAND (vers. 24-35).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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) "transiit Bethaven", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "vel, beliatores transierunt Bethaven", Pagninus, Vatablus, Drusius.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven—that is, "Beth-el." It passed over the forest, now destroyed, on the central ridge of Palestine, then over to the other side from the eastern pass of Michmash (1Sa 14:31), to the western pass of Aijalon, through which they escaped into their own plains.

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Israel Defeats the Philistines
…21Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan. 22Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. 23So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over to Bethaven.

Exodus 14:30 That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
Joshua 7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, "Go up and spy out the region." So the men went up and spied out Ai.
1 Samuel 10:19 But you have now rejected your God, who saves you out of all your disasters and calamities. And you have said, 'No, appoint a king over us.' So now present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans."
1 Samuel 13:5 The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven.
1 Chronicles 11:14 But they took their stand in the middle of the field. They defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.
2 Chronicles 32:22 So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all others. He took care of them on every side.
Psalm 44:7 but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.