⁵ As they journeyed, there was ^[a](A)a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

⁶ For ^(A)the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired ^(B)the kings of the Hittites and ^(C)the kings of the Egyptians against us, to ^[a]attack us!”