“For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.”
1 Chronicles 5:22 (WEB)
Context Reading
20They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them because they put their trust in him. 21They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. 22For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. 23The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. 24These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel — mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.