'Approached' in the Bible

While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines approached to attack Israel. But that day the LORD thundered against the Philistines and threw them into panic, and they were defeated before Israel.

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah.

Saul approached Samuel in the gate area and asked, “Would you please tell me where the seer’s house is?”

Samuel approached Saul. "May the LORD bless you," Saul said. "I've carried out the LORD's command."

Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.

Instead, he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the wadi and put them in the pouch, in his shepherd’s bag. Then, with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.

And the Philistine came on and approached David; and the man that bore the shield was before him.

So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

When David came to the 200 men who had been too exhausted to go with him and had been left at the Wadi Besor, they came out to meet him and to meet the troops with him. When David approached the men, he greeted them,