For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For they fled - The inhabitants of one part of the land.
The grievousness of war - Hebrew, כבד kobed - "the weight, the heaviness, the oppression" of war; probably from the calamities that would result from the march of the Assyrian through their land, either on his way to Judea or to Egypt.