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Saul
reigned one year; and when he had reigned two
years over Israel,
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering
to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the
burnt offering.
10 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.
11 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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12 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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:
18 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.
19 Now there was no smith found throughout all
the land of Israel: for the Philistines said,
Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
20 But all the Israelites went down to the
Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and
his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
21 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.
22 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.
23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out
to the passage of Michmash.
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