1 Samuel 7:10
7:10 As Samuel was offering burnt offerings, the Philistines approached to do battle with Israel. 1 But on that day the Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines. He caused them to panic, and they were defeated by 2 Israel.
1 Samuel 13:5
13:5 For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000 3 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.
1 Samuel 13:22
13:22 So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
1 Samuel 17:23
17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, 4 and David heard it.
1 Samuel 17:47
17:47 and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves! For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”
1 Samuel 17:52
17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. 5 They chased the Philistines to the valley 6 and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
1 Samuel 26:10
26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
1 Samuel 28:1
The Witch of Endor
28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops 7 for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” 8
1 Samuel 29:9
29:9 Achish replied to David, “I am convinced that you are as reliable 9 as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’
1 Samuel 30:24
30:24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”
1 tn Heb “approached for battle against Israel.”
2 tn Heb “before.”
3 tn Many English versions (e.g., KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV) read “30,000” here.
4 tn Heb “according to these words.”
5 tn Heb “arose and cried out.”
6 tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”
7 tn Heb “their camps.”
8 tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.
9 tn Heb “I know that you are good in my eyes.”