"The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle."
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Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?
Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.
The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.