1 Samuel 14:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle, and every sword was against the other, so that there was very great confusion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Then Saul and all the people with him rallied and went into the battle, and behold, every [Philistine's] sword was against his fellow in wild confusion.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And Saul and all the people that were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Then Saul called all his troops together, and they went into battle. The Philistines were completely confused; every soldier’s sword was turned against his fellow soldier.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Then Saul, and all the people who were with him, cried out together, and they went to the place of the conflict. And behold, each one's sword had been turned against his neighbor, and there was a very great slaughter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Then Saul and all the people that were with him, shouted together, and they came to the place of the fight. And behold every man's sword was turned upon his neighbour; and there was a very great slaughter.

1 Samuel 14:20 Cross References

1 Kings 20:21

The king of Israel went out, attacked the horses and chariots, and inflicted a massive defeat on the Arameans.

2 Chronicles 20:23

For the Ammonites and Moab attacked the inhabitants of Mount Seir, destroying them utterly, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.

Isaiah 19:2

I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, one against the other, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;

Ezekiel 38:21

I will summon the sword against Gog in all my mountains, says the Lord God; the swords of all will be against their comrades.

Judges 7:22

When they blew the three hundred trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army, and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

1 Samuel 14:16

Saul’s lookouts in Gibeah of Benjamin were watching as the multitude was surging back and forth.

1 Samuel 9:16

“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines, for I have seen the suffering of my people, because their outcry has come to me.”