4. “Come,” they say, “let us destroy their nation,so that Israel will be forgotten for ever.”
5. They agree on their planand form an alliance against you:
6. the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites;the people of Moab and the Hagrites;
7. the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,and of Philistia and Tyre.
8. Assyria has also joined themas a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.