²² When all the Israelites who had hidden^(A) in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were on the run, they joined the battle in hot pursuit.

⁶ When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid^(A) in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.^(B)

⁷ When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.