And the word of Shmuel came to all Yisrael. Now Yisrael went out against the Plishtim to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Plishtim pitched in Aphek.
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of YY , which he spake by his servant Eliyah-yahu the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Yizreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Izevel:
But when the Plishtim heard that they had anointed David king over Yisrael, all the Plishtim came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.
And the children of Yosef said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Kenaanim that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Yizreel.
Then Yerubaal, who is Gidon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.