1 Samuel 4:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell in battle.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:12 : 12 Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • 1 Sam 4:2 : 2 The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.
  • Lev 26:17 : 17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
  • 2 Sam 18:17 : 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.
  • 2 Sam 19:8 : 8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they all came before him.David Goes Back to JerusalemBut the Israelite soldiers had all fled to their own homes.
  • 2 Sam 20:1 : 1 Sheba’s Rebellion Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said,“We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!”
  • 1 Kgs 12:16 : 16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king,“We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Return to your homes, O Israel! Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” So Israel returned to their homes.
  • 1 Kgs 22:36 : 36 As the sun was setting, a cry went through the camp,“Each one should return to his city and to his homeland.”
  • 2 Chr 13:17 : 17 Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.
  • 2 Chr 25:22 : 22 Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.
  • 2 Chr 28:5-6 : 5 The LORD his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. 6 In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors.
  • Ps 78:9 : 9 The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.
  • Ps 78:60-64 : 60 He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men. 61 He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy. 62 He delivered his people over to the sword, and was angry with his chosen nation. 63 Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried. 64 Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows did not weep.
  • Isa 10:3-6 : 3 What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth? 4 You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again. 5 The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish. 6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
  • 2 Sam 18:7 : 7 The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

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  • 1 Sam 4:1-3
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    1Samuel revealed the word of the LORD to all Israel.The Ark of the Covenant is Lost to the PhilistinesThen the Israelites went out to fight the Philistines. They camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines camped at Aphek.

    2The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

    3When the army came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said,“Why did the LORD let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us from the hand of our enemies.”

  • 1 Chr 10:1-2
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    1Saul’s Death Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

    2The Philistines stayed right on the heels of Saul and his sons. They struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

  • 1 Sam 31:1
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    1The Death of Saul Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel. The men of Israel fled from the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 4:11-12
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    11The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

    12Eli Dies On that day a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

  • 1 Sam 4:9
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    9Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!”

  • 1 Sam 4:16-17
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    77%

    16The man said to Eli,“I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli asked,“How did things go, my son?”

    17The messenger replied,“Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

  • 1 Sam 17:52
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    52Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. They chased the Philistines to the valley and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 13:4-6
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    4All Israel heard this message,“Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive to the Philistines!” So the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

    5Meanwhile the Philistines gathered to battle with Israel. Then they went up against Israel with 3,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven.

    6The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, and cisterns.

  • 1 Sam 14:20-22
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    20Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords.

    21The Hebrews who had earlier gone over to the Philistine side joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    22When all the Israelites who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, they too pursued them in battle.

  • Judg 20:39
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    39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

  • 1 Sam 7:10-11
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    10As Samuel was offering burnt offerings, the Philistines approached to do battle with Israel. But on that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines. He caused them to panic, and they were defeated by Israel.

    11Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.

  • 1 Sam 6:19
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    19But the LORD struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD; he struck down 50,070 of the men. The people grieved because the LORD had struck the people with a hard blow.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
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    8Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly and they ran away from him.

  • Judg 20:17
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    17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

  • Judg 20:31
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    31The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    73%

    19They are with Saul and the whole Israelite army in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

  • 1 Sam 14:30-31
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    30Certainly if the army had eaten some of the enemies’ provisions that they came across today, would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”

    31On that day the army struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, and they became very tired.

  • 1 Sam 17:21
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    21Israel and the Philistines drew up their battle lines opposite one another.

  • 1 Sam 17:24
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    24When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated from his presence and were very afraid.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
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    17Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.

  • 1 Sam 4:7
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    7The Philistines were scared because they thought that gods had come to the camp. They said,“Woe to us! We’ve never seen anything like this!

  • Judg 20:34-35
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    34Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • 1 Chr 10:7-8
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    7When all the Israelites who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.

    8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

  • Judg 8:10
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    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

  • 1 Sam 7:7
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    7When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the leaders of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the Israelites heard about this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 10:18
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    18The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.

  • 1 Sam 17:11
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    11When Saul and all the Israelites heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

  • 1 Sam 17:2
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    2Saul and the Israelite army assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 31:7
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    7When the men of Israel who were in the valley and across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29
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    29The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

  • 1 Sam 5:11
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    11So they assembled all the leaders of the Philistines and said,“Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us and our people!” The terror of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
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    1David Is Rejected by the Philistine Leaders The Philistines assembled all their troops at Aphek, while Israel camped at the spring that is in Jezreel.

  • 2 Sam 21:15
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    15Israel Engages in Various Battles with the Philistines Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.