1╙┴ 13:1 ╙AUL REIGNED ONE YEAR; AND WHEN HE HAD REIGNED TWO YEARS OVER ╔SRAEL,
1╙┴ 13:2 ╙AUL CHOSE HIM THREE THOUSAND MEN OF ╔SRAEL; WHEREOF TWO THOUSAND WERE WITH ╙AUL IN ═ICHMASH AND IN MOUNT ┬ETHEL, AND A THOUSAND WERE WITH ╩ONATHAN IN ╟IBEAH OF ┬ENJAMIN: AND THE REST OF THE PEOPLE HE SENT EVERY MAN TO HIS TENT.
1╙┴ 13:3 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN SMOTE THE GARRISON OF THE ╨HILISTINES THAT WAS IN ╟EBA, AND THE ╨HILISTINES HEARD OF IT. ┴ND ╙AUL BLEW THE TRUMPET THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, SAYING, ╠ET THE ╚EBREWS HEAR.
1╙┴ 13:4 ┴ND ALL ╔SRAEL HEARD SAY THAT ╙AUL HAD SMITTEN A GARRISON OF THE ╨HILISTINES, AND THAT ╔SRAEL ALSO WAS HAD IN ABOMINATION WITH THE ╨HILISTINES. ┴ND THE PEOPLE WERE CALLED TOGETHER AFTER ╙AUL TO ╟ILGAL.
1╙┴ 13:5 ┴ND THE ╨HILISTINES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER TO FIGHT WITH ╔SRAEL, 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 ═ICHMASH, EASTWARD FROM ┬ETHAVEN.
1╙┴ 13:6 ╫HEN THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL 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.
1╙┴ 13:7 ┴ND SOME OF THE ╚EBREWS WENT OVER ╩ORDAN TO THE LAND OF ╟AD AND ╟ILEAD. ┴S FOR ╙AUL, HE WAS YET IN ╟ILGAL, AND ALL THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM TREMBLING.
1╙┴ 13:8 ┴ND HE TARRIED SEVEN DAYS, ACCORDING TO THE SET TIME THAT ╙AMUEL HAD APPOINTED: BUT ╙AMUEL CAME NOT TO ╟ILGAL; AND THE PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED FROM HIM.
1╙┴ 13:9 ┴ND ╙AUL SAID, ┬RING HITHER A BURNT OFFERING TO ME, AND PEACE OFFERINGS. ┴ND HE OFFERED THE BURNT OFFERING.
1╙┴ 13:10 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING THE BURNT OFFERING, BEHOLD, ╙AMUEL CAME; AND ╙AUL WENT OUT TO MEET HIM, THAT HE MIGHT SALUTE HIM.
1╙┴ 13:11 ┴ND ╙AMUEL SAID, ╫HAT HAST THOU DONE? ┴ND ╙AUL SAID, ┬ECAUSE ╔ SAW THAT THE PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED FROM ME, AND THAT THOU CAMEST NOT WITHIN THE DAYS APPOINTED, AND THAT THE ╨HILISTINES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AT ═ICHMASH;
1╙┴ 13:12 ╘HEREFORE SAID ╔, ╘HE ╨HILISTINES WILL COME DOWN NOW UPON ME TO ╟ILGAL, AND ╔ HAVE NOT MADE SUPPLICATION UNTO THE ╠╧╥─: ╔ FORCED MYSELF THEREFORE, AND OFFERED A BURNT OFFERING.
1╙┴ 13:13 ┴ND ╙AMUEL SAID TO ╙AUL, ╘HOU HAST DONE FOOLISHLY: THOU HAST NOT KEPT THE COMMANDMENT OF THE ╠╧╥─ THY ╟OD, WHICH HE COMMANDED THEE: FOR NOW WOULD THE ╠╧╥─ HAVE ESTABLISHED THY KINGDOM UPON ╔SRAEL FOR EVER.
1╙┴ 13:14 ┬UT NOW THY KINGDOM SHALL NOT CONTINUE: THE ╠╧╥─ HATH SOUGHT HIM A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART, AND THE ╠╧╥─ HATH COMMANDED HIM TO BE CAPTAIN OVER HIS PEOPLE, BECAUSE THOU HAST NOT KEPT THAT WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ COMMANDED THEE.
1╙┴ 13:15 ┴ND ╙AMUEL AROSE, AND GAT HIM UP FROM ╟ILGAL UNTO ╟IBEAH OF ┬ENJAMIN. ┴ND ╙AUL NUMBERED THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRESENT WITH HIM, ABOUT SIX HUNDRED MEN.
1╙┴ 13:16 ┴ND ╙AUL, AND ╩ONATHAN HIS SON, AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRESENT WITH THEM, ABODE IN ╟IBEAH OF ┬ENJAMIN: BUT THE ╨HILISTINES ENCAMPED IN ═ICHMASH.
1╙┴ 13:17 ┴ND THE SPOILERS CAME OUT OF THE CAMP OF THE ╨HILISTINES IN THREE COMPANIES: ONE COMPANY TURNED UNTO THE WAY THAT LEADETH TO ╧PHRAH, UNTO THE LAND OF ╙HUAL:
1╙┴ 13:18 ┴ND ANOTHER COMPANY TURNED THE WAY TO ┬ETHHORON: AND ANOTHER COMPANY TURNED TO THE WAY OF THE BORDER THAT LOOKETH TO THE VALLEY OF ┌EBOIM TOWARD THE WILDERNESS.
1╙┴ 13:19 ╬OW THERE WAS NO SMITH FOUND THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF ╔SRAEL: FOR THE ╨HILISTINES SAID, ╠EST THE ╚EBREWS MAKE THEM SWORDS OR SPEARS:
1╙┴ 13:20 ┬UT ALL THE ╔SRAELITES WENT DOWN TO THE ╨HILISTINES, TO SHARPEN EVERY MAN HIS SHARE, AND HIS COULTER, AND HIS AXE, AND HIS MATTOCK.
1╙┴ 13:21 ┘ET THEY HAD A FILE FOR THE MATTOCKS, AND FOR THE COULTERS, AND FOR THE FORKS, AND FOR THE AXES, AND TO SHARPEN THE GOADS.
1╙┴ 13:22 ╙O 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 ╙AUL AND ╩ONATHAN: BUT WITH ╙AUL AND WITH ╩ONATHAN HIS SON WAS THERE FOUND.
1╙┴ 13:23 ┴ND THE GARRISON OF THE ╨HILISTINES WENT OUT TO THE PASSAGE OF ═ICHMASH.
