1 Samuel 31:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and on the other side of the Jordan saw that Israel’s men had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. So the Philistines came and settled in them.

Cross References

1 Samuel 13:6

The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.

Judges 6:2

and they oppressed Israel.  Because of Midian, the Israelites made hiding places  for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have laboured for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

Leviticus 26:36

‘I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

Leviticus 26:32

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

1 Samuel 31:6

So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armour-bearer, and all his men.

1 Samuel 31:8

The next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons dead on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 13:7

Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul, however, was still at Gilgal, and all his troops were gripped with fear.