1Sa 4:10-11, 17, 13:6-7, 11, 19-22, 31:1-7, Psa 59:11 | ESV | STEP | So the Philistines fought , and Israel was defeated , and they fled , every man to his home . And there was a very great slaughter , for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell .

1 Samuel 4:10-11

10 So the Philistines fought, ^aand Israel was defeated, ^band they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell. 11 ^cAnd the ark of God was captured, ^dand the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

1 Samuel 4:17

17 He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

1 Samuel 13:6-7

6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves ^ein caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, 7 and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

1 Samuel 13:11

11 Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

1 Samuel 13:19-22

19 ^fNow there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” 20 But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew plowshare} 21 and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel ^{▼▼Hebrew was a pim} for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain} 22 So on the day of the battle ^kthere was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

1 Samuel 31:1-7

The Death of Saul

1 ^lNow the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain ^mon Mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down ⁿJonathan and ^oAbinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3 ^pThe battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. 4 ^qThen Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these ^runcircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, ^sfor he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword ^tand fell upon it. 5 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him. 6 Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together. 7 And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.

Psalms 59:11

11 Kill them not, lest my people forget;
make them totter ^{▼▼Or wander} by your power and ^vbring them down,
O Lord, our ^wshield!