The First Book of Shemu'el, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Sha'ul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when
he had reigned two years over Yisra'el, {13:2} Sha'ul chose him three
thousand men of Yisra'el, whereof two thousand were with Sha'ul in
Mikhmash and in the Mount of Beit-El, and one thousand were with
Yonatan in Gevah of Binyamin: and the rest of the people he sent every
man to his tent. {13:3} Yonatan struck the garrison of the Pelishtim
that was in Geva: and the Pelishtim heard of it. Sha'ul blew the
[1>]shofar[<1] throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
{13:4} All Yisra'el heard say that Sha'ul had struck the garrison of
the Pelishtim, and also that Yisra'el was had in abomination with the
Pelishtim. The people were gathered together after Sha'ul to Gilgal.
{13:5} The Pelishtim assembled themselves together to fight with
Yisra'el, 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 encamped in Mikhmash, eastward of Beit-Aven. {13:6} When
the men of Yisra'el 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 coverts, and in pits. {13:7} Now some
of the Hebrews had gone over the Yarden to the land of Gad and Gil`ad;
but as for Sha'ul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed
him trembling. {13:8} He stayed seven days, according to the set time
that Shemu'el [had appointed]: but Shemu'el didn't come to Gilgal; and
the people were scattered from him. {13:9} Sha'ul said, Bring here the
burnt offering to me, and the peace-offerings. He offered the burnt
offering. {13:10} It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, behold, Shemu'el came; and Sha'ul went
out to meet him, that he might greet him. {13:11} Shemu'el said, What
have you done? Sha'ul said, Because I saw that the people were
scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed,
and that the Pelishtim assembled themselves together at Mikhmash;
{13:12} therefore said I, Now will the Pelishtim come down on me to
Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of the LORD: I forced myself
therefore, and offered the burnt offering. {13:13} Shemu'el said to
Sha'ul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the [2>]mitzvah[<2]
of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: for now would the LORD
have established your kingdom on Yisra'el forever. {13:14} But now
your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought him a man after
his own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be prince over his
people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you.
{13:15} Shemu'el arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gevah of
Binyamin. Sha'ul numbered the people who were present with him, about
six hundred men. {13:16} Sha'ul, and Yonatan his son, and the people
who were present with them, abode in Geva of Binyamin: but the
Pelishtim encamped in Mikhmash. {13:17} The spoilers came out of the
camp of the Pelishtim in three companies: one company turned to the
way that leads to Ofrat, to the land of Shual; {13:18} and another
company turned the way to Beit-Horon; and another company turned the
way of the border that looks down on the valley of Tzevo`im toward the
wilderness. {13:19} Now there was no smith found throughout all
Eretz-Yisra'el; for the Pelishtim said, Lest the Hebrews make them
swords or spears: {13:20} but all the Yisra'elites went down to the
Pelishtim, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and
sickle; {13:21} yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the
plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
{13:22} 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 who
were with Sha'ul and Yonatan: but with Sha'ul and with Yonatan his son
was there found. {13:23} The garrison of the Pelishtim went out to the
pass of Mikhmash.
{14:1} Now it fell on a day, that Yonatan the son of Sha'ul said to
the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the
Pelishtim' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his
father. {14:2} Sha'ul abode in the uttermost part of Gevah under the
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him
were about six hundred men; {14:3} and Achiyah, the son of Achituv,
Ikhavod's brother, the son of Pinechas, the son of `Eli, the
[1>]Kohen[<1] of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an efod. The people
didn't know that Yonatan was gone. {14:4} Between the passes, by which
Yonatan sought to go over to the Pelishtim' garrison, there was a
rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and
the name of the one was Botzetz, and the name of the other Senneh.
{14:5} The one crag rose up on the north in front of Mikhmash, and the
other on the south in front of Geva. {14:6} Yonatan said to the young
man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to 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. {14:7}
His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you,
behold, I am with you according to your heart. {14:8} Then said
Yonatan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose
ourselves to them. {14:9} If they say thus to us, Wait until we come
to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to
them. {14:10} But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up;
for the LORD has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the
sign to us. {14:11} Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison
of the Pelishtim: and the Pelishtim said, Behold, the Hebrews come
forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. {14:12} The men
of the garrison answered Yonatan and his armor bearer, and said, Come
up to us, and we will show you a thing. Yonatan said to his armor
bearer, Come up after me; for the LORD has delivered them into the
hand of Yisra'el. {14:13} Yonatan climbed up on his hands and on his
feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Yonatan;
and his armor bearer killed them after him. {14:14} That first
slaughter, which Yonatan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty
men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
{14:15} There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all
the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and
the [2>]eretz[<2] quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
{14:16} The watchmen of Sha'ul in Gevah of Binyamin looked; and,
behold, the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.
{14:17} Then said Sha'ul to the people who were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Yonatan
and his armor bearer were not there. {14:18} Sha'ul said to Achiyah,
Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of God was [there] at that time
with the children of Yisra'el. {14:19} It happened, while Sha'ul
talked to the [3>]Kohen[<3], that the tumult that was in the camp of
the Pelishtim went on and increased: and Sha'ul said to the
[4>]Kohen[<4], Withdraw your hand. {14:20} Sha'ul and all the people
who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and,
behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a
very great confusion. {14:21} Now the Hebrews who were with the
Pelishtim as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from
the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the
Yisra'elites who were with Sha'ul and Yonatan. {14:22} Likewise all
the men of Yisra'el who had hid themselves in the hill-country of
Efrayim, when they heard that the Pelishtim fled, even they also
followed hard after them in the battle. {14:23} So the LORD saved
Yisra'el that day: and the battle passed over by Beit-Aven. {14:24}
The men of Yisra'el were distressed that day; for Sha'ul had adjured
the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be
evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted
food. {14:25} All the people came into the forest; and there was honey
on the ground. {14:26} When the people were come to the forest,
behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for
the people feared the oath. {14:27} But Yonatan didn't hear when his
father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the
end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb,
and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. {14:28}
Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly
charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats
food this day. The people were faint. {14:29} Then said Yonatan, My
father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been
enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. {14:30} How much
more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their
enemies which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter
among the Pelishtim. {14:31} They struck of the Pelishtim that day
from Mikhmash to Ayalon. The people were very faint; {14:32} and the
people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and
killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
{14:33} Then they told Sha'ul, saying, Behold, the people sin against
the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt
treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day. {14:34} Sha'ul said,
Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, Bring me here
every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and
eat; and don't sin against the LORD in eating with the blood. All the
people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them
there. {14:35} Sha'ul built an altar to the LORD: the same was the
first altar that he built to the LORD. {14:36} Sha'ul said, Let us go
down after the Pelishtim by night, and take spoil among them until the
morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do
whatever seems good to you. Then said the [5>]Kohen[<5], Let us draw
near here to God. {14:37} Sha'ul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down
after the Pelishtim? will you deliver them into the hand of Yisra'el?
But he didn't answer him that day. {14:38} Sha'ul said, Draw near
here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin
has been this day. {14:39} For, as the LORD lives, who saves Yisra'el,
though it be in Yonatan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not
a man among all the people who answered him. {14:40} Then said he to
all Yisra'el, Be you on one side, and I and Yonatan my son will be on
the other side. The people said to Sha'ul, Do what seems good to you.
{14:41} Therefore Sha'ul said to the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, Show
the right. Yonatan and Sha'ul were taken [by lot]; but the people
escaped. {14:42} Sha'ul said, Cast [lots] between me and Yonatan my
son. Yonatan was taken. {14:43} Then Sha'ul said to Yonatan, Tell me
what you have done. Yonatan told him, and said, I did certainly taste
a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and,
behold, I must die. {14:44} Sha'ul said, God do so and more also; for
you shall surely die, Yonatan. {14:45} The people said to Sha'ul,
Shall Yonatan die, who has worked this great salvation in Yisra'el?
Far from it: as the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head
fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people
rescued Yonatan, that he didn't die. {14:46} Then Sha'ul went up from
following the Pelishtim; and the Pelishtim went to their own place.
{14:47} Now when Sha'ul had taken the kingdom over Yisra'el, he fought
against all his enemies on every side, against Mo'av, and against the
children of `Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Tzovah,
and against the Pelishtim: and wherever he turned himself, he put
[them] to the worse. {14:48} He did valiantly, and struck the
`Amaleki, and delivered Yisra'el out of the hands of those who
despoiled them. {14:49} Now the sons of Sha'ul were Yonatan, and
Yishvi, and Malki-Shua; and the names of his two daughters were these:
the name of the firstborn Merav, and the name of the younger Mikhal:
{14:50} and the name of Sha'ul's wife was Achino'am the daughter of
Achima`atz. The name of the captain of his host was Aviner the son of
Ner, Sha'ul's uncle. {14:51} Kish was the father of Sha'ul; and Ner
the father of Aviner was the son of Aviel. {14:52} There was sore war
against the Pelishtim all the days of Sha'ul: and when Sha'ul saw any
mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.
{15:1} Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, the LORD sent me to anoint you to be
king over his people, over Yisra'el: now therefore listen you to the
voice of the words of the LORD. {15:2} Thus says the LORD of Hosts, I
have marked that which `Amalek did to Yisra'el, how he set himself
against him in the way, when he came up out of Mitzrayim. {15:3} Now
go and strike `Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and
don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox
and sheep, camel and donkey. {15:4} Sha'ul summoned the people, and
numbered them in Tela'im, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten
thousand men of Yehudah. {15:5} Sha'ul came to the city of `Amalek,
and laid wait in the valley. {15:6} Sha'ul said to the Kinim, Go,
depart, get you down from among the `Amaleki, lest I destroy you with
them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Yisra'el, when
they came up out of Mitzrayim. So the Kinim departed from among the
`Amaleki. {15:7} Sha'ul struck the `Amaleki, from Havilah as you go to
Shur, that is before Mitzrayim. {15:8} He took Agag the king of the
`Amaleki alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of
the sword. {15:9} But Sha'ul 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 wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything
that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. {15:10} Then
came the word of the LORD to Shemu'el, saying, {15:11} It repents me
that I have set up Sha'ul to be king; for he is turned back from
following me, and has not performed my [1>]mitzvot[<1]. Shemu'el was
angry; and he cried to the LORD all night. {15:12} Shemu'el rose early
to meet Sha'ul in the morning; and it was told Shemu'el, saying,
Sha'ul came to Karmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and
turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal. {15:13} Shemu'el came
to Sha'ul; and Sha'ul said to him, Blessed are you by the LORD: I have
performed the [2>]mitzvah[<2] of the LORD. {15:14} Shemu'el said, What
means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of
the oxen which I hear? {15:15} Sha'ul said, They have brought them
from the `Amaleki: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of
the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have
utterly destroyed. {15:16} Then Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, Stay, and I
will tell you what the LORD has said to me this night. He said to him,
Say on. {15:17} Shemu'el said, "Though you were little in your own
sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Yisra'el? the LORD
anointed you king over Yisra'el; {15:18} and the LORD sent you on a
journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the `Amaleki,
and fight against them until they are consumed.' {15:19} Why then
didn't you obey the voice of the LORD, but flew on the spoil, and did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?" {15:20} Sha'ul said to
Shemu'el, Yes, 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 `Amaleki. {15:21} But the people took
of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to
sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal. {15:22} Shemu'el said, Has
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 listen than the fat of rams. {15:23} For rebellion
is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and
terafim. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also
rejected you from being king. {15:24} Sha'ul said to Shemu'el, I have
sinned; for I have transgressed the [3>]mitzvah[<3] of the LORD, and
your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
{15:25} Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship the LORD. {15:26} Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, I will
not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and
the LORD has rejected you from being king over Yisra'el. {15:27} As
Shemu'el turned about to go away, [Sha'ul] laid hold on the skirt of
his robe, and it tore. {15:28} Shemu'el said to him, the LORD has torn
the kingdom of Yisra'el from you this day, and has given it to a
neighbor of yours who is better than you. {15:29} Also the Strength of
Yisra'el will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should
repent. {15:30} Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please,
before the Zakenim of my people, and before Yisra'el, and turn again
with me, that I may worship the LORD your God. {15:31} So Shemu'el
turned again after Sha'ul; and Sha'ul worshiped the LORD. {15:32} Then
said Shemu'el, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the `Amaleki.
Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death
is past. {15:33} Shemu'el said, As your sword has made women
childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Shemu'el
hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. {15:34} Then Shemu'el
went to Ramah; and Sha'ul went up to his house to Gevah of Sha'ul.
{15:35} Shemu'el came no more to see Sha'ul until the day of his
death; for Shemu'el mourned for Sha'ul: and the LORD repented that he
had made Sha'ul king over Yisra'el.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:3} trumpet
[2] {13:13} commandment
[1] {14:3} priest
[2] {14:15} earth
[3] {14:19} priest
[4] {14:19} priest
[5] {14:36} priest
[1] {15:11} commandments
[2] {15:13} commandment
[3] {15:24} commandment
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