1 Samuel 31:7

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Leviticus 26:32

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.

Leviticus 26:36

And on those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee, and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time.

Judges 6:2

The hands of Midian dominated Israel, and because of Midian the Israelites made hiding places for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

1 Samuel 13:6

When Israel’s fighting men saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in hollows, among rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

1 Samuel 13:7

Some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him, trembling.

1 Samuel 31:6

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

1 Samuel 31:8

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