1 Samuel 14:20

And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

Cross-reference

In 1 Samuel 14:16, the watchmen see the Philistine camp in disarray—this confusion escalates into the self-slaughter described in verse 20.

Judges 7:22 Parallel

Judges 7:22 parallels this divine confusion: the Lord sets Midianites against each other, just as Philistines turn on one another here.

2 Chronicles 20:23 shows the same pattern: Ammon and Moab destroy each other after God sets them against one another.

Isaiah 19:2 Parallel

Isaiah 19:2 prophesies Egyptian civil war, mirroring the Philistine self-destruction here as divine judgment.

Ezekiel 38:21 echoes this divine confusion: God turns every man's sword against his brother, a similar pattern of internal strife among enemies.