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chapter 13
1
Saul
was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he reigned two years over
Israel.
2 And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and
two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand
with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin, and the rest of the people he sent back
every man to their dwellings.
3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines
which was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the
trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.
4 And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten
the garrison of the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the
Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Galgal.
5 The Philistines also were assembled to fight against
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of
people besides, like the sand on the sea shore for number. And going up they
camped in Machmas at the east of Bethaven.
6 And when the men of Israel saw that they were
straitened, (for the people were distressed,) they hid themselves in caves, and
in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.
7 And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan into
the land of Gad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people
that followed him were greatly afraid.
8 And he waited seven days according to the appointment
of Samuel, I and Samuel came not to Galgal, and the people slipt away from him.
9 Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace
offerings. And he offered the holocaust.
10 And when he had made an end of offering the
holocaust, behold Samuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him and salute him.
11 And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul
answered: Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come
according to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered together in
Machmas,
12 I said: Now will the Philistines come down upon me
to Galgal, and I have not appeased the face of the Lord. Forced by necessity, I
offered the holocaust.
13 And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done foolishly,
and hast not kept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded
thee. And if thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would now have established thy
kingdom over Israel for ever.
14 But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath
sought him a man according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to
be prince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the Lord
commanded.
15 And Samuel arose and went up from Galgal to Gabaa of
Benjamin. And the rest of the people went up after Saul, to meet the people who
fought against them, going from Galgal to Gabaa in the hill of Benjamin. And
Saul numbered the people, that were found with him, about six hundred men.
16 And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people that
were present with them, were in Gabaa of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped
in Machmas.
17 And there went out of the camp of the Philistines
three companies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the
land of Sual;
18 And another went by the way of Beth-horon, and the
third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the
desert.
19 Now there was no smith to be found in all the land
of Israel, for the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews
should make them swords or spears.
20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.
21 So that their shares, and their spades, and their
forks, and their axes were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.
22 And when the day of battle was come, there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with
Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.
23 And the army of the Philistines went out in order to
advance further in Machmas.
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