## I am giving them all to Israel as dead men ##

Yahweh is assuring the nation of Israel that the enemy armies will be made powerless before them, so that they will be defeated.

## hamstring their horses ##

This is a practices where the backs of the legs are cut so that the horses cannot walk or run. AT: "cut the legs of the horses to disable them."

## Merom ##

This is the name of a place (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])