²⁴ All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.

² When the house of David was told, ^(A)“Syria is in league with^{[a] (B)}Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz^[b] and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

¹¹ When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

⁶ When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves ^(A)in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, ⁷ and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

³³ And there we saw the ^(A)Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the ^(B)Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves ^(C)like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

³⁶ And as for those of you who are left, ^(A)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^(B)sound of a ^(C)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.