“When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.