The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

以法莲的子孙带着兵器，拿着弓，临阵之日转身退后。

以法莲人带着兵器，拿着弓，临阵之日转身退后。

以法莲人带着兵器，拿着弓，临阵之日转身退后。

以法莲人备上了弓箭，却临阵逃命。

以法莲的子孙，虽然备有弓箭，在争战的日子，却转身逃走。

以法莲的子孙是装备好的弓箭手，但他们在战斗之日转身而逃。

以法蓮的子孫帶着兵器，拿着弓，臨陣之日轉身退後。

以法蓮人帶着兵器，拿着弓，臨陣之日轉身退後。

以法蓮人帶着兵器，拿着弓，臨陣之日轉身退後。

以法蓮人備上了弓箭，卻臨陣逃命。

以法蓮的子孫，雖然備有弓箭，在爭戰的日子，卻轉身逃走。

放縱無度詐偽不忠之輩、就像接戰之日乖張的弓一樣。

以法蓮的子孫是裝備好的弓箭手，但他們在戰鬥之日轉身而逃。

以法蓮裔持械執弓、臨戰卻退兮、

勿效以法蓮支派、備兵戈、執弓矢、臨戰而披靡兮、

以法蓮之後裔、如人持弓箭器械、臨陣之時、回身逃避、

法蓮子孫。攜弓手刃。臨陣之日。逡巡而遯。

The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;

The soldiers of Ephraim were armed with bows. But they ran away on the day of battle.

The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle.

The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.

The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, Yet they turned back on the day of battle.

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.

The children of Ephraim,[ being] armed,[ and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

“ Then you answered me,‘ We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.And the Lord said to me,‘ Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

The people of Joseph said,“ The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh,“ You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

And Gaal the son of Ebed said,“ Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

Then Zebul said to him,“ Where is your mouth now, you who said,‘ Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.

the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said,“ Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

Peter said to him,“ Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”

They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kinsmen.