Some Battles Are Won & Some Lost, All Are God's 1 Samuel 29-31.

1 Samuel 30:1-2, 8, 17 1 Samuel 29:11 1 Samuel 31:2-3, 8, 13 Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. Then the Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons. The battle became fierce against Saul. The archers hit him, and he was severely wounded by the archers. So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.” So it happened the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. So David and his men rose early to depart in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel. Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.