they joined battle # 09_1SA_04_02 # And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men. 
they joined battle # 01_GEN_14_08 # And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela [the same [is] Zoar;] and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;