“Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.”
Whenever the Israelites marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, to fulfill what the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in great distress. — The persistence of Israel's military failure indicates that divine opposition operated systematically across all military initiatives. The phrase 'to fulfill what the LORD had sworn' indicates that this military defeat fulfilled covenant curses previously announced. The phrase 'they were in great distress' conveys the psychological and existential toll of continuous military defeat and foreign domination.
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