The Ephraimites ¹  were armed with bows, ²  but they retreated in the day of battle. ³ 

You turn back ¹  his sword from the adversary, ²  and have not sustained him in battle. ³ 

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

How the warriors have fallen in the midst of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places!

That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

You give me strength for battle; ¹  you make my foes kneel before me. ² 

and Asa went out to oppose him. They deployed for battle in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

O sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, ¹  you shield ²  my head in the day of battle.

Then the Lord will go to battle ¹  and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days. ² 

The Philistines arranged their forces to fight ¹  Israel. As the battle spread out, ²  Israel was defeated by ³  the Philistines, who ⁴  killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

the Israelites counterattacked. ¹  Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; ²  they struck down ³  about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli ¹  asked, “How did things go, my son?”

At the sound of the trumpet, it says, ‘Aha!’ And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ¹  the archers ²  spotted him and wounded him severely.

Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers. ¹ 

The battle was thick ¹  around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him. ² 

From Zebulun there were 50,000 warriors who were prepared for battle, equipped with all kinds of weapons, and ready to give their undivided loyalty. ¹ 

He was with David in Pas Dammim ¹  when the Philistines assembled there for battle. In an area of the field that was full of barley, the army retreated before the Philistines,

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. ¹ 

No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon); ¹  they had to conquer all of them, ²