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Saul reproved by Samuel.

Before CHRIST 1093.

Jonathan miraculously smiteth

Before CHRIST

1093• So Judg.

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: 5.8. but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

1 SAMUEL. 8¶And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had apd ch. 10. 8. pointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 9 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 Hleb. bless salute him.

him.

+ Heb. intreated the face.

e 2 Chron. 16.9.

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;

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 f ch. 15. 11. 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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23 And the || garrison of the Philistines pch. 14. 1,4went out to the passage of Michmash. CHAP. XIV.

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Jonathan, unwitting to his father, the priest,

or the people, goeth and miraculously smiteth the Philistines' garrison. 15 A divine terror maketh them beat themselves. 17 Saul, not staying the priest's answer, setteth on them. 21 The captivated Hebrews, and the hidden Israelites, join against them. 24 Saul's unadvised adjuration hindereth_the victory. 32 He restraineth the people from eating blood. 35 He buildeth an altar. 36 Jonathan, taken by lot, is saved by the people. 47 Saul's strength and family.

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was a day.

OW it came to pass upon a day, or, there that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hun- a ch. 13. 15. dred men;

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11, 20, called c ch. 4. 21.

3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I- b ch.2.9. chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, Ahimelech. the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, dwearing an ephod. And the people ch. 2. 28. knew not that Jonathan was gone.

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4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

e ch. 13. 23.

5 The forefront of the one was si- +Heb. tooth. tuate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD 'to save by many or by few. 7 And his armourbearer said unto him, 14-11. 1 Mac. Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

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Before us; then we will go up: for the LORD CHRIST cir. 1087. hath delivered them into our hand: and 1 Mac. + this shall be a sign unto us.

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11 And both of them discovered them24 14 Judg selves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was Or, half about twenty men, within as it were || an acre of land. half acre of land, which a yoke of oren might plow.

furrow of an

Judg. 7. 21.

it Kings 77. Job 13. 11.

15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the peoch. 13 17. ple: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

+ Feb. a trembling of God

16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gi| Gen. 35-5 beah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they "went on beating down one another.

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17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.

18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.

19 And it came to pass, while Saul Nomb. 27. talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand. 20 And Saul and all the people that Heb were were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, beJehold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

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26 And when the people were come 27. Matt. 3. into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.

27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb,, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were || faint.

29 Then said Jonathan; My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

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33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have || transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox + with him that night, and slew them there.

35¶ And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

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36 And Saul said, Let us go down LORD. after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoe er seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

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38 ¶ And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the + chief of the people: and or Judg. know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

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39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, || Give a perfect lot. And Prov.16.33. Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the

Or, shew the innocent.

Acts 1. 24.

d Josh. 7. 16. people † escaped.

ch. 10. 20, 21. 42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

↑ Heb. went forth.

e Josh. 7. 19.

f ver. 27.

g Ruth 1. 17. h ver. 39.

43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, 'I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

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44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: "for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God for13 Sam. 14. bid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

11. 1 Kings 1. 52. Luke 21. 18.

46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.

47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against k ch.11.11. the children of Ammon, and against 12 Sam. 10.6. Edom, and against the kings of 'Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them. 48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

1 Or, wrought

mightily.

m ch. 15.39

7.

n ch. 31. 2.

1 Chron. 8.

33.

+ Heb. Abiner.

e ch.9. 1.

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49 Now "the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was +Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

51 And Kish was the father of Saul;

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3 Now go and smite Amalek, and Cut- 20 Deut. 25. terly destroy all that they have, and spare ‹ Lev. 27.5 them not; but slay both man and woman, 17, 21. infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

6¶ And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for 'ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

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Gen. 3, 12

Prov. 28. 13.

n ch. 9. 21.

14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: *for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

17 And Samuel said, "When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against + Heb. they them until they be consumed.

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19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, *I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

22 And Samuel said, 'Hath the LORD 11,11,12, as great delight in burnt offerings and Jer. 72,23 sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Hebr. 1 LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

10. 6,

a Eccies. 5.1. Hos. 6.6 Matt. 5. 2413 & 12. 7. Mark 12. 33

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*Heb.

sination.

23 For rebellion is as the sin of twitchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou

Deut. 18 10. hast rejected the word of the LORD, b ch. 13. 14 he hath also rejected thee from being king.

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24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon

His humiliation.

my sin, and turn_again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

Before CHRIST cir. 1079.

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26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast re- See ch. 2. jected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, 'he laid hold upon the skirt of his fSee 1 Kings mantle, and it rent.

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Samuel anointeth David.

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fch. 17. 32, 34, 35, 36,

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4 And Samuel did that which the LORD | and said, Behold, I have seen a son of cir. 1063 spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning cir. 106 elders of the town "trembled at his + com- in playing, and a mighty valiant man, Heb. meeting, and said, 'Comest thou peaceably? and a man of war, and prudent in || mat5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come ters, and a comely person, and the LORD 13. 2 Kings to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify is with him. k Exod. 19. yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 ¶ And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on 'Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.

10, 14.

1 ch. 17:13. 1 Chron. 27.

called Eliku,

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7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, n Ps. 147. 10, Look not on "his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have reo Isai. 55. 8. fused him: °for the LORD seeth not as p2 Cor. 10.7. man seeth; for man looketh on the + Heb. eyes. toutward appearance, but the LORD look41 Kings 8. eth on the heart.

39. 1 Chron. 88. 9. Ps. 7. 9. Jer. 11.90.

8 Then Jesse called 'Abinadab, and &17. 10. & made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

20. 12. Acts

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11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, t ch. 17. 12. There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Sather their armies to battle, and were WOW the Philistines gathered toge- a ch. 13.5

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