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"of the hand of our enemies, and we will "serve thee." 11. And the LORD sent Je"rubbaal (d) and Bedan (e), and Jephthah, “ and Samuel (e), and delivered you out of “ the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. 12. And when ye "saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, "Nay, but a king shall reign over us;" when the LORD your God was your king. 13. Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired: and behold the LORD hath set a king over you. 14. If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye, and also the king that reigneth over you, continue (f) following the LORD your God. 15. But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LoRD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was (g) against your fathers. 16. Now therefore stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. 17. Is it not wheat (b) harvest to-day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king." 18. So Samuel called unto the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 19. And all the people said unto Samuel, "Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to * ask us a king." 20. And Samuel said into the people, "Fear not: (ye have

(d) v.11. "Jerubbaal," i. e. "Gideon." Judges vii. 1. "Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, &c." ( ) “ Bedan” and “ Samuel, or rather "Barak" and "Sampson." Bedan is no where else mentioned as a deliverer of Israel and it would have been strange for "Samuel" to have named himself. These persons are named together, Heb. xi. 32. "The time would fail "me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of "Sampson." Kennic. Rem. 103. 2 Hales 338. (f) v. 14. "Continue following," or rather

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"done all this wickedness: yet turn not "aside from following the LORD, but "serve the LORD with all your heart; "21. And turn ye not aside: for then "should ye go after vain things, which can"not profit nor deliver, for they are vain): ،، 22. For the LORD will not forsake his "people, for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. 23. Moreover, as for God forbid that I should sin against "the LORD, in ceasing to pray for you: "but I will teach you the good and the ❝right way. 24. Only fear the LORD, and "serve him in truth with all your heart: "for consider how great things he hath "done for you. 25. But if ye shall still "do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both 66 ye and your king."

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CHAP. XIII.

SAUL reigned one year, and when he

had reigned two years over Israel, 2. Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash, and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. 3. 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." 4. 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 to gether after Saul to Gilgal. 5. And the Philistines gathered themselves together, to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as

"be protected by ;" literally, "be behind." So that God will always be before you, to preserve you.

(g) v. 15. For, "as it was against your "fathers," Sept. reads, "and against your « king."

(b) v. 17. "Wheat harvest." A time of year, therefore, when there could be no expectation of rain. Their rains were periodical; only at stated times of the year.

the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. And he tarried seven days, according to (i) the set time that Samuel had appointed: 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 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 Mich"mash: 12. Therefore said I, " The Phi"listines will come down now upon me to "Gilgal, and I have not made supplication "unto the LORD:" I forced myself there"fore, 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

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"now would the LORD have established "thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

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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 cap"tain over his people, because thou hast "not kept that which the LORD com"manded 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 Sau and Jonathan his son, and the people the were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines emcamped 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 Beth-horon: and another com pany turned to the way of the border, that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. 19. Now there was m smith found throughout all the land f 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 mat tock. 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:

and that the injunction to tarry was indefinite, not limited to seven days.

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(k) v. 15. The Sept. and most copies of the Vulgate, read, "and Samuel arose, and gat "him up from Gilgal: and the people that were left went up after Saul unto Gibeah, "&c." There is no reason to suppose that Samuel went up to Gibeah. 1 Wall, 189. 2 Hales, 343.

() v. 19. "No smith, &c." A political precaution, to keep the Israelites in a state of subjection. In Deborah's song, ante, Judge iv. 8. she asks, "was there a shield or spe seen among 40,000 in Israel?"

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"Lord sent me to anoint thee to be "king over his people, over Israel: now "therefore hearken thou unto the voice "of the words of the LORD. 2. Thus "saith the LORD of hosts, "I remember "that which Amalek did to Israel, how "he laid wait for him in the way when he "came up from Egypt. 3. Now go, and "smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all "that they have, and spare them not; but "slay both man and woman, infant, and "suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." 4. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim (n), 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 shewed kindness to all the ye « 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. 8. And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9. But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 10. Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, 11. "It repenteth "me that I have set up Saul to be king: "for he is turned back from following

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me, and hath not performed my com"mandments." And it grieved Samuel;

(m) v. I. " Said." Before Christ 1079. (n) v. 4. "Telaim," or "Gilgal," Sept. Telaim is no where else mentioned.

(o) v. 12. "Place," or "memorial," in remembrance of his success.

and he cried unto the LORD all night. 12. And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, "he set him up a place (0), and is gone "about, and passed on and gone down to "Gilgal." 13. And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him, "Blessed be thou "of the LORD: I have performed the "commandment of the LORD." 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 (p) "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 jour

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ney, and said, "Go, and utterly destroy "the sinners the Amalekites, and fight "against them until they be consumed." "19. Wherefore then didst thou not obey "the voice of the LORD, but didst fly

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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 66 way which the LORD sent me, and have "brought Agag the king of Amalek, and "have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

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21. But the people took of the spoil, "sheep and oxen, the chief of the things "which should have been utterly de"stroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy "God in Gilgal." 22. And Samuel said, "Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt"offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying "the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey " is better than sacrifice; and to hearken,

(p) v. 15. 21. "The people." An attempt to throw wholly upon the people, whom he ought to have controlled and over-ruled, the offence in which, according to verse 9, he and they concurred.

"than the fat of rams. 23. For rebel"lion is as (q) the sin of witchcraft, and "stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry: "because thou hast rejected the word of "the LORD, he hath also rejected thee "from being king." 24. And Saul said unto Samuel, «I have sinned: for I have 66 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 "my sin, and turn again with me, that "I may worship the LORD." 26. And Samuel said unto Saul, "I will not return "with thee for thou hast rejected 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 mantle, and it rent. 28. And Samuel said unto him, "The LORD hath rent the "kingdom of Israel from thee this day, " and hath given it to a neighbour of thine "that is better than thou. 29. And also "the strength of Israel will not lie, nor repent: for he is not a man that he "should repent." 30. Then he said, "I "have sinned, yet honour me now, I pray "thee, before the elders of my people, and

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before Israel, and turn again with me, "that I may worship the LORD thy God." 31. So Samuel turned again after Saul, and Saul worshipped the LORD. 32. Then said Samuel," Bring you hither to me "Agag the king of the Amalekites :" and Agag came unto him delicately (r). And Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death "is past." 33. And Samuel said, "As thy "sword hath made women childless, so "shall thy mother be childless among "women." And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 34. Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 35. And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the

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day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

CHAP. XVII.

NOW() the Philistines gathered toge

ther their armies to battle, and were gathered together at (1) Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah (t), in Ephesdammim. 2. And Saul and the men of Israel were. gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in arr against the Philistines. 3. And the Phili stines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain of the other side: and there was a valley between them. 4. And there went out champion out of the camp of the Phili stines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span (3) 5. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail: and the weight of the coat five thousand shekels (x) of brass. 6. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, a a target of brass between his shoulden. 7. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels (y) of iron: and one bearing a shield, went before him. 8. And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, "Why are ye come "out to set your battle in array? am not I

a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? "choose you a man for you, and let him "come down to me. 9. If he be able to "fight with me, and to kill me, then will "we be your servants: but if I prevail "against him, and kill him, then shall y "be our servants, and serve us." 10. the Philistine said, "I defy the armies "Israel this day; give me a man, that

may fight together." 11. When Sap and all Israel heard those words of the

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Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 12. Now (z) David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13. And the three eldest sons of Jesse went, and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah. 14. And David was the youngest and the three eldest followed Saul. 15. But David went and returned (a) from Saul, to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. 16. And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. 17. And Jesse said unto David his son, "Take now for thy brethren an ephah of "this parched corn, and these ten loaves, "and run to the camp to thy brethren. 18." And carry these ten cheeses unto "the captain of their thousand, and look "how thy brethren fare, and take their "pledge." 19. Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. 20. And David rose up early in the morn ing, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. 21. For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army. 22. And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. 23. And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion (the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name) out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. 24. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. 25. And the men of Israel said, "Have ye seen this man that is come

up? surely to defy Israel is he come up : " and it shall be that the man who killeth

"him, the king will enrich him with great "riches, and will give him his daughter, "and make his father's house free in "Israel." 26. And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, "What "shall be done to the man that killeth this "Philistine, and taketh away the reproach "from Israel? for who is this uncircum"cised Philistine that he should defy the "armies of the living God?" 27. And the people answered him after this manner, saying, "So shall it be done to the man "that killeth him." 28. And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why camest "thou down hither? and with whom hast "thou left those few sheep in the wilder"ness? I know thy pride, and the naugh"tiness of thy heart; for thou art come "down, that thou mightest see the battle." 29. And David said, "What have I now "done? Is there not a cause?" 30. And he turned from him towards another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner. 31. And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him. 32. And David said to Saul, “Let "no man's heart fail because of him; thy "servant will go and fight with this Phi"listine." 33. And Saul said to David, "Thou art not able to go against this "Philistine, to fight with him: for thou "art but a youth, and he a man of war "from his youth." 34. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's "sheep, and there came a lion, and a "bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: "35. And I went out after him, and "smote him, and delivered it out of his "mouth and when he arose against me, "I caught him by his beard, and smote "him, and slew him. 36. Thy servant "slew both the lion and the bear: and "this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as "one of them, seeing he hath defied the "armies of the living God." 37. David

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(z) v. 12 to 31 is omitted in the Sept. (a) v. 15. "Returned from Saul." "He had before been sought out to play upon the harp

before Saul, and Saul had made him his armourbearer. See 1 Sam. xvi. 16 to 23.

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