1 Samuel 13
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- Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years
over Israel,
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- Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two
thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were
with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every
man to his tent.
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- And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that
was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
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- And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a
garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with
the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
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- And the Philistines gathered themselves together to
fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up,
and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
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- When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait,
(for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
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- And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of
Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed
him trembling.
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- And he tarried seven days, according to the set time
that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
scattered from him.
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- And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and
peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
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- And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might salute him.
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- And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said,
Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not
within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves
together at Michmash;
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- Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now
upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced
myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
- 13
- And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou
hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee:
for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
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- But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath
sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be
captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD
commanded thee.
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- And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah
of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about
six hundred men.
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- And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were
present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped
in Michmash.
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- And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines
in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah,
unto the land of Shual:
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- And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and
another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of
Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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- Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
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- But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
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- Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the
coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
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- So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with
Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
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- And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the
passage of Michmash.
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