battle

And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him, and the princes of the Philistines said vnto him, Make this fellow returne, that he may goe againe to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go downe with vs to battel, lest in the battell he be an aduersary to vs: for wherewith should hee reconcile himselfe vnto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 12.19.

And Achish answered, and said to Dauid, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an Angel of God: notwithstanding the Princes of the Philistines haue said, Hee shall not goe vp with vs to the battell.

For who will hearken vnto you in this matter? But as his part is that goeth downe to the battell, so shall his part bee that tarieth by the stuffe: they shall part alike.

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

1611 marginal noteHeb. shooters, men with bowes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. found him.

And Dauid said vnto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell mee. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battell, and many of the people also are fallen and dead, and Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead also.

1611 marginal noteHeb. what was &c.

How are the mightie fallen in the midst of the battell! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine high places.

And there was a very sore battell that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the seruants of Dauid.

So Ioab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slaine their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battell.

1611 marginal noteChap. 2.23.

And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battell in aray at the entring in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselues in the field.

When Ioab saw that the front of the battell was against him, before and behind, he chose of all the choise men of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians.