1 Samuel 31:7

New American Bible - revised edition

When the Israelites on the slope of the valley and those along the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and lived in those cities.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:32

So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.

Leviticus 26:36

Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them;

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be thoroughly oppressed and continually crushed,

Judges 6:2

so that Midian held Israel subject. From fear of Midian the Israelites made dens in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

1 Samuel 13:6

When the soldiers saw they were in danger because the army was hardpressed, they hid themselves in caves, thickets, rocks, caverns, and cisterns.

1 Samuel 13:7

Other Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul, however, held out in Gilgal, all his army trembling in fear behind him.

1 Samuel 31:6

Thus Saul, his three sons, and his armor-bearer died together on that same day.

1 Samuel 31:8

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