The writer has just finished telling how the Philistines were subdued. If your language has a way of marking the end of a description, you could use it here.
# the Philistines were subdued
This can be translated in active form. AT: "Yahweh subdued the Philistines" or "Yahweh kept the Philistines from causing harm" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])