But the LORD said, “Moses, warn them not to go into the hill country. I won't help them fight, and their enemies will defeat them.”
As few as five of them, or even one, will be enough to chase a thousand of you. Finally, all that will be left will be a few survivors as lonely as a flag pole on a barren hill.
Even if you do have children, I will take them all and leave you to mourn. I will turn away, and you will sink down in deep trouble.
and I will turn from you and let you be destroyed by your attackers. You will even run at the very rumour of attack.
The Philistines did fight. They killed thirty thousand Israelite soldiers, and all the rest ran off to their homes.
The Philistines made a fierce attack. They defeated the Israelites and killed about four thousand of them.