Verse 12

And behold, God himself is with us as our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to sound alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Se, Gud selv leder oss sammen med sine prester med hornene for å blåse til kamp mot dere. Israels barn, kjemp ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke lykkes.»

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Og se, Gud selv er med oss som vår leder, og hans prester med trumpetene for å lyde alarm mot dere. O Israels barn, kjemp ikke mot Herren deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke ha fremgang.

• Norsk King James

  Se, Gud selv er med oss som vår leder, og hans prester med trompetter gir alarm mot dere. O Israel, kjempe ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud; for dere vil ikke vinne.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Se, Gud er med oss i spissen, og hans prester har signaltrompeter som skal blåse mot dere. Israels barn, ikke kjemp mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for da vil det ikke lykkes dere.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Se, hos oss er Gud i spissen, hans prester med basunene for å lyde alarm over dere. Israel, kjemp ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke lykkes.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Se, Gud selv er med oss som vår anfører, og hans prester med sine bushorn for å blåse alarm mot dere. Dere israelitter, strid ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere skal ikke få fremgang.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Og se, Gud selv er med oss som vår leder, og hans prester blåser i trompeter for å varsle mot dere. Å, Israels barn, kjemp ikke mot HERRENS Gud, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke seire.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Se, Gud selv er med oss som vår anfører, og hans prester med sine bushorn for å blåse alarm mot dere. Dere israelitter, strid ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere skal ikke få fremgang.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Se, Gud står med oss som vårt hode, og hans prester med kamptrumpetene til å blåse angrepet mot dere. Dere, Israels sønner, ikke kjemper mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke lykkes.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Now look, God is with us at our head, and His priests with their trumpets are ready to sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Og se, Gud selv er med oss som vår leder, og hans prester med signaltrompeter som lyder til kamp mot dere. Israels sønner, kjemp ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke lykkes.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor, see, Gud er med os foran, og hans Præster og Klangens Basuner til at blæse imod eder; (I) Israels Børn, strider ikke imod Herren, eders Fædres Gud, thi det skal ikke lykkes eder.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Se, Gud selv er med oss som leder, og hans prester med larmende trompeter for å gi alarm mot dere. Å, Israels barn, kjemp ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere skal ikke lykkes.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Se, Gud er med oss foran, og hans prester med alarmtrompeter for å gi alarm mot dere. Israelitter, slåss ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke ha fremgang.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og se, med oss, i vår front, er Gud og hans prester med trompeter for å heve et rop mot dere. Israels sønner, kjemp ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke lykkes.'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og se, Gud er med oss i spissen, og hans prester med basunene for å slå alarm mot dere. Israels barn, kjemp ikke imot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for dere vil ikke ha fremgang.»

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og nå er Gud med oss som vår leder, og hans prester med sine høye trompeter mot dere. O Israels barn, kjemp ikke mot Herren, deres fedres Gud, for det vil ikke gå dere vel.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Beholde, God is the captayne of oure hoost, and with vs are his prestes, and the blowynge trompettes, to trompe agaynst you. Ye children of Israel, fight not agaynst the LORDE God of yor fathers: for ye shal not prospere.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And behold, this God is with vs, as a captaine, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets, to crie an alarme against you. O yee children of Israel, fight not against the Lorde God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And beholde, God him selfe is our captayne, and his priestes blowe with the trumpettes and crie alarum against you. O ye children of Israel, fight not against the Lorde God of your fathers: for it wyll not prosper with you.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And lo, with us -- at `our' head -- `is' God, and His priests and trumpets of shouting to shout against you; O sons of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah, God of your fathers, for ye do not prosper.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. You Israelites, don’t fight against the LORD God of your ancestors, for you will not win!”

Referenced Verses

• Num 10:8-9 : 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be for you an ordinance forever throughout your generations. 9 And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
• Acts 5:39 : 39 But if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.
• Zech 10:5 : 5 And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle. And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
• Acts 9:4-5 : 4 And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? 5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting: it is hard for you to kick against the goads.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Heb 2:10 : 10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• Num 14:41 : 41 And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
• Num 23:21 : 21 He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
• Num 31:6 : 6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 For the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
• Deut 28:29 : 29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.
• Josh 5:13-15 : 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, No; but as captain of the army of the LORD have I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD's army said to Joshua, Take your shoe off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.
• Josh 6:13-20 : 13 And seven priests carrying seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing the trumpets. 14 And the second day they surrounded the city once, and returned to the camp: this they did for six days. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawn of the day, and surrounded the city in the same manner seven times: only on that day they surrounded the city seven times. 16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has given you the city. 17 And the city shall be accursed, it and all that are in it, to the LORD: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 And you, by all means keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD. 20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
• 1 Sam 4:5-7 : 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout so that the earth rang again. 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean? And they understood that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp. 7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe to us! for such a thing has not happened before.
• 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.
• Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against Him and succeeded?
• Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. 26 He runs upon Him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his shields.
• Job 40:9 : 9 Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him?
• Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
• Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, What are you making? or shall your work say, He has no hands?
• Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
• Jer 2:37 : 37 Yes, you shall go forth from him, with your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences, and you shall not prosper in them.
• Jer 50:24 : 24 I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.