"Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow."
NIV
For if you go [in spite of warning], no matter how strong you are for battle, God will cast you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to cast down.
AMP
But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
KJV
The whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.
NIV
When the Israelites heard of it, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war on them.
AMP
And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
KJV
The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city
NIV
Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke arise from the city
AMP
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
KJV
Sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! "Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick."
NIV
It [the sword of Babylon] is sharpened that it may make a slaughter, polished that it may flash and glitter like lightning! Shall we then rejoice and make mirth [when such a calamity is impending]? But the rod or scepter of My son [Judah] rejects and views with contempt every tree [that is, since God's promise long ago to Judah is certain, he believes Judah's scepter must remain no matter what power arises against it]! [Gen. 49:9, 10; II Sam. 7:23.]AMP
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
KJV
