¹⁸ When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets,^(A) then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon.’”

²⁰ Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.

⁵² Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath^[a] and to the gates of Ekron.^(A) Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim^(B) road to Gath and Ekron.