1 Samuel 28:5
Good News Translation
When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was terrified,

New Revised Standard Version
When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

Contemporary English Version
Saul took one look at the Philistine army and started shaking with fear.

New American Bible
When Saul saw the Philistine camp, he grew afraid and lost heart completely.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his heart was very much dismayed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his heart was very much dismayed.

he was afraid

Job 15:21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 18:11 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Psalm 48:5,6 So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved: . . .

Psalm 73:19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

Proverbs 10:24 As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.

Isaiah 7:2 And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. . . .

Isaiah 57:20,21 But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire. . . .

Daniel 5:6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Context
Philistines Gather Against Israel
4And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to Gelboe. 5And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his heart was very much dismayed.6And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:4
And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to Gelboe.

1 Samuel 28:6
And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.

1 Samuel 28:4
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