²² When the three hundred trumpets sounded,^(A) the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other^(B) with their swords.^(C) The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah^(D) near Tabbath.

²⁰ Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking^(A) each other with their swords.

²³ The Ammonites^(A) and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir^(B) to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.^(C)

¹⁷ “Or if I bring a sword^(A) against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,^(B)