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

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

And many fell down slain : for it was the battle of the Lord. And they dwelt in their stead till the captivity.

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

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

And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

And many fell down wounded. For it was a war of the Lord. And they lived in place of them, until the transmigration.

For there fell down many slain - The hundred thousand men mentioned above were probably made slaves, and were not slain. The Targum says, one hundred thousand souls of men.
The war was of God - The Targum says, the war was מן מימרא דיי min meymera dayai, "from the Word of the Lord."

For there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the (i) captivity.
(i) Meaning, the captivity of the ten tribes under Tiglath Pileser.

For there fell down many slain,.... Many were killed in the battle, besides the great number of prisoners made, so that the army the Ishmaelites brought into the field was very great:
because the war was of God; or from the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; he stirred up the Israelites to it, directed, assisted, and succeeded them, that vengeance might be taken on this wicked and idolatrous people:
and they dwelt in their stead until the captivity; the Targum adds, of Sennacherib king of Assyria; but this captivity of the tribes referred to was not by him, but by Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, 1-Chronicles 5:26 and they dwelt not in the country of the Arab-hagarites, or Ishmaelites in their stead there, but in Gilead, as in 1-Chronicles 5:10 which belonged to the Gadites and Reubenites originally, but had been dispossessed of it, or however distressed in it by these Hagarites, which they now drove out, and dwelt in their stead; for as for the Scenite-arabs or Ishmaelites, they never were conquered and brought into subjection by any people, but always maintained their independency (d); and lived upon the plunder of their neighbours, pitching their tents here and there for their convenience, which in these parts were at this time spoiled.
(d) See the notes on Genesis. xvi. 12. and Daniel. xi. 41. and a dissertation upon the independency of the Arabs, at the end of the Universal History, vol. 20. See Gill on Genesis 16:12. See Gill on Daniel 11:41.

This rich booty should not surprise us, "for there fell many slain," i.e., the enemy had suffered a very bloody defeat. "For the war was from God," i.e., conducted to this result: cf. 2-Chronicles 25:20; 1-Samuel 17:47. "And they dwelt in their stead," i.e., they took possession of the pasture grounds, which up to that time had belonged to the Arabs, and held them until they were carried away captive by the Assyrians; see 1-Chronicles 5:26.

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.