5 For they and their livestock would come up with their tents. They would come as numerous as the locusts,+ and they and their camels were without number;+ and they would come into the land to ruin it.+

5 And the Phi·lisʹtines, for their part, collected themselves together to fight against Israel, thirty* thousand war chariots+ and six thousand horsemen and people like the grains of sand that are upon the seashore for multitude;+ and they went their way up and began camping in Michʹmash to the east of Beth-aʹven.+

7 “Be courageous and strong.+ Do not be afraid+ nor be terrified+ because of the king of As·syrʹi·a+ and on account of all the crowd that is with him;+ for with us there are more than there are with him.

34 stayed the force of fire,+ escaped the edge* of the sword,+ from a weak state were made powerful,+ became valiant in war,+ routed the armies of foreigners.+