“For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 5 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.