1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Samuel 4:2

And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines, and there were slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four thousand men.

Here, etc. Hebrew, "in the field" of battle. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "in the ranks, in the field." (Haydock)