3 And the sons of Israel began to cry out to Jehovah,+ because he had nine hundred war chariots with iron scythes,*+ and he himself oppressed the sons of Israel+ with harshness twenty years.
4 In time Je·hoʹa·haz softened+ the face of Jehovah, so that Jehovah listened+ to him; for he had seen the oppression upon Israel,+ because the king of Syria had oppressed them.+