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all Israel was coming

Here "Israel" represents all the men of Israel capable of fighting. Here "all Israel" is a generalization which means almost all the men of Israel. Alternate translation: "all the men of Israel were coming" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole)