00:001 Samuel 13 Saul reigned one year, and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul
00:09chose him three thousand men of Israel, whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash, and
00:14in Mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah, Benjamin, and the rest
00:19of the people he sent every man to his tent.
00:22And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard
00:28of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
00:34And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel
00:40also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul
00:46to Gilgal. And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand
00:53chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude.
00:59And they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-Avon. When the men of Israel
01:06saw that they were in a strait, for the people were distressed, then the people did hide themselves
01:11in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. And some of the
01:17Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal,
01:23and all the people followed him, trembling. And he tarried seven days according to the set
01:28time that Samuel had appointed. But Samuel came not to Gilgal, and the people were scattered
01:34from him. And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he
01:41offered the burnt offering. And it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering
01:45the burnt offering. Behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
01:52And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered
01:59from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered
02:04themselves together at Michmash. Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to
02:10Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord. I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt
02:16offering. And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly. Thou hast not kept the commandment of
02:24the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. For now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon
02:30Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a man after his
02:36own heart. And the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not
02:41kept that which the Lord commanded thee. And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
02:48Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him about six hundred men. And Saul
02:55and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with him, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin.
03:01But the Philistines encamped in Michmash. And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines
03:06in three companies. One company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of
03:13Shual. And another company turned the way to Bethhoron. And another company turned to the way of the
03:19border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness. Now there was no smith found
03:25throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords
03:31or spears. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share,
03:38and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the
03:44coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. So it came to pass in the day
03:50of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were
03:55with Saul and Jonathan. But with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. And the garrison
04:02of the Philistines went out, to the passage of Michmash.
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