For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.