<p class="bodytext">From Zebulun there were 50,000 warriors who were prepared for battle, equipped with all kinds of weapons, and ready to give their undivided loyalty.<n id="1" />p>

They attacked<n id="1" /> the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

Because God fought for them,<n id="1" /> they killed many of the enemy.<n id="2" /> They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.<n id="3" />p>

The battle was thick<n id="1" /> around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">From Dan there were 28,600 men prepared for battle.p>

<p class="bodytext">From Asher there were 40,000 warriors prepared for battle.p>

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

So Joab and his men<n id="1" /> marched toward the Arameans to do battle, and they fled before him.

During the time of Saul they attacked the Hagrites and defeated them. They took over their territory in the entire eastern region of Gilead.<n id="1" />p>

They received divine help in fighting them, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. They cried out to God during the battle; he responded to their prayers because they trusted in him.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons.<n id="1" />

All these were the sons of Jediael. Listed in their genealogical records were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished<n id="1" /> from the presence of Saul son of Kish. (They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.

<p class="bodytext">From the other side of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons.p>

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, then attack.<n id="1" /> For at that moment the <sc>Lordsc> is going before you to strike down the army<n id="2" /> of the Philistines.&#8221;

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel&#8217;s best men and deployed them against the Arameans.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Later there was a battle<n id="1" /> with the Philistines in Gezer.<n id="2" /> At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Sippai,<n id="3" /> one of the descendants of the Rephaim, and the Philistines<n id="4" /> were subdued.p>

<p class="bodytext">There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite,<n id="1" /> whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver&#8217;s loom.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">In a battle in Gath<n id="1" /> there was a large man who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot &#8211; twenty-four in all! He too was a descendant of Rapha.