1 Samuel 14:15
Good News Translation
All the Philistines in the countryside were terrified; the raiders and the soldiers in the camp trembled with fear; the earth shook, and there was great panic.

New Revised Standard Version
There was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and even the raiders trembled; the earth quaked; and it became a very great panic.

Contemporary English Version
The whole Philistine army panicked--those in camp, those on guard duty, those in the fields, and those on raiding patrols. All of them were afraid and confused. Then God sent an earthquake, and the ground began to tremble.

New American Bible
Then terror spread through the camp and the countryside; all the soldiers in the outpost and in the raiding parties shuddered in terror. The earth shook with an awesome shuddering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.

there was trembling

Joshua 2:9 I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength.

Judges 7:21 Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:

2 Kings 7:6,7 For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one to another: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us. . . .

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

Psalm 14:5 They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.

the spoilers

1 Samuel 13:17,23 And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three companies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the land of Sual; . . .

the earth quaked

Exodus 19:18 And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Matthew 24:6 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet.

Matthew 27:50,51 And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. . . .

Genesis 35:5 And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

Leviticus 26:36,37 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them. . . .

2 Samuel 5:24 And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of the pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go out before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.

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
Jonathan's Victory over the Philistines
14And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was of about twenty men, within half an acre of land, which a yoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day. 15And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.16And the watchmen of Saul, who were in Gabaa of Benjamin looked, and behold a multitude overthrown, and fleeing this way and that.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:5
And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.

1 Samuel 7:10
And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the holocaust, the Philistines began the battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified them, and they were overthrown before the face of Israel.

1 Samuel 13:17
And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three companies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the land of Sual;

1 Samuel 13:18
And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.

1 Samuel 14:14
And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was of about twenty men, within half an acre of land, which a yoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day.

1 Samuel 14:16
And the watchmen of Saul, who were in Gabaa of Benjamin looked, and behold a multitude overthrown, and fleeing this way and that.

2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one to another: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us.

1 Samuel 14:14
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