1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.
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Joshua 17:16And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel.
Joshua 19:30And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.
Judges 7:1Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.
1 Samuel 28:1Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.
1 Kings 18:45And after a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.
1 Kings 21:1Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 29:1
How Saul, who was forsaken of God, when he was in a strait was more and more perplexed and embarrassed with his own counsels, we read in the foregoing chapter. In this chapter we find how David, who kept close to God, when he was in a strait was extricated and brought off by the providence of God, without any contrivance of his own. We have him, I. Marching with the Philistines, ver. 1, 2 . II. Excepted against by the lords of the Philistines, ver. 3-5 . III. Happily dismissed by Achish from that service which did… Read the whole commentary →