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The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.
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Verse 10. Footmen. They had no cavalry, ( Calmet.) as God seemed to discourage any. Bible.—Even after Solomon’s time, they had not many horsemen. Calmet.—The Israelites had before lost 4,000: now when they were full of confidence, and fought with valour, they behold 30,000 fall. The ark proved thus fatal to them. Bible.
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