battle

And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battell, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

All these the sonnes of Iediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seuenteene thousand and two hundred souldiers, fit to goe out for warre and battaile.

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers house, choice and mightie men of valour, chiefe of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogie of them, that were apt to the warre and to battell, was twentie and sixe thousand men.

And the battell went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

1611 marginal noteHebr. shooters with bowes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. found him.

He was with Dauid at Pasdammim; and there the Philistines were gathered together to battell, where was a parcell of ground full of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.

1611 marginal noteOr, Ephesdammim, 1.Sam. 17.1.

And of the Gadites there separated themselues vnto Dauid, into the hold to the wildernesse, men of might, and men of warre, fit for the battel, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of Lyons, and were as swift as the Roes vpon the mountaines:

1611 marginal noteHeb. of the hoste.

1611 marginal noteHeb. as the Roes vpon the mountaines to make haste.

And there fell some of Manasseh to Dauid, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battell, but they helped them not. For the LORDs of the Philistines, vpon aduisement, sent him away, saying, Hee will fall to his master Saul, to the ieopardie of our heads.

1611 marginal noteHeb. on our heads.

1611 marginal note1.Sam. 29.4.

Of Zebulun, such as went foorth to battell, expert in warre, with all instruments of warre, fifty thousand, which could keepe ranke: They were not of double heart.

1611 marginal noteOr rangers of battell, or ranged in battell.

1611 marginal noteOr, set the battell in aray.

1611 marginal noteHeb. without a heart and a heart.

And of Asher, such as went foorth to battell, expert in warre, fourtie thousand.

1611 marginal noteOr, keeping their ranke.

And on the other side of Iorden, of the Reubenites, & the Gadites, and of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, with all maner of instruments of warre for the battell, an hundred and twentie thousand.