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Two thousand of these troops stayed with him in the hills around Michmash and Bethel. The other 1,000 were stationed with Jonathan<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.2!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> at Gibeah<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.2!f.4" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> in the territory of Benjamin.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.3" class="v9_13_3">3</span>Jonathan led an attack on the Philistine army camp at Geba.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> The Philistine camp was destroyed, but<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.3!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the other Philistines heard what had happened. Then Saul told his messengers, “Go to every village in the country. Give a signal with the trumpet, and when the people come together, tell them what has happened.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.4" class="v9_13_4">4</span>The messengers then said to the people of Israel, “Saul has destroyed the Philistine army camp at Geba.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Now the Philistines really hate Israel, so every town and village must send men to join Saul's army at Gilgal.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.5" class="v9_13_5">5</span>The Philistines called their army together to fight Israel. They had 3,000<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> chariots, 6,000 cavalry, and as many foot soldiers as there are grains of sand on the beach. They went to Michmash and set up camp there east of Beth-Aven.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.5!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.6" class="v9_13_6">6</span>The Israelite army realized that they were outnumbered and were going to lose the battle. Some of the Israelite men hid in caves or in clumps of bushes,<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and some ran to places where they could hide among large rocks. Others hid in tombs<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.6!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> or in deep dry pits. </span><span class="v9_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.7" class="v9_13_7">7</span>Still others<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> went to Gad and Gilead on the other side of the Jordan River.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_7">Saul stayed at Gilgal. His soldiers were shaking with fear, </span><span class="v9_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.8" class="v9_13_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and they were starting to run off and leave him. Saul waited there seven days, just as Samuel had ordered him to do,<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> but Samuel did not come. </span><span class="v9_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.9" class="v9_13_9">9</span>Finally, Saul commanded, “Bring me some animals, so we can offer sacrifices to please the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and ask for his help.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_9">Saul killed one of the animals, </span><span class="v9_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.10" class="v9_13_10">10</span>and just as he placed it on the altar, Samuel arrived. Saul went out to welcome him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.11" class="v9_13_11">11</span>“What have you done?” Samuel asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_11">Saul answered, “My soldiers were leaving in all directions, and you didn't come when you were supposed to. The Philistines were gathering at Michmash, </span><span class="v9_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.12" class="v9_13_12">12</span>and I was worried that they would attack me here at Gilgal. I hadn't offered a sacrifice to ask for the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s help, so I forced myself to offer a sacrifice on the altar fire.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.13" class="v9_13_13">13</span>“That was stupid!” Samuel said. “You didn't obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God. If you had obeyed him, someone from your family would always have been king of Israel. </span><span class="v9_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.14" class="v9_13_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But no, you disobeyed, and so the <span class="nd">Lord</span> won't choose anyone else from your family to be king. In fact, he has already chosen the one he wants to be the next leader of his people.” </span><span class="v9_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.15" class="v9_13_15">15</span>Then Samuel left Gilgal.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_15">Part of Saul's army had not deserted him, and he led them to Gibeah in Benjamin to join his other troops. Then he counted them<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and found that he still had 600 men. </span><span class="v9_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.16" class="v9_13_16">16</span>Saul, Jonathan, and their army set up camp at Geba in Benjamin.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Jonathan Attacks the Philistines</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_16">The Philistine army was camped at Michmash. </span><span class="v9_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.17" class="v9_13_17">17</span>Each day they sent out patrols to attack and rob villages and then destroy them. One patrol would go north along the road to Ophrah in the region of Shual. </span><span class="v9_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.18" class="v9_13_18">18</span>Another patrol would go west along the road to Beth-Horon. A third patrol would go east toward the desert on the road to the ridge that overlooks Zeboim Valley.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.19" class="v9_13_19">19</span>The Philistines would not allow any Israelites to learn how to make iron tools. “If we allowed that,” they said, “those worthless Israelites would make swords and spears.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21" class="v9_13_20">20-21</span>Whenever the Israelites wanted to get an iron point put on a cattle prod,<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> they had to go to the Philistines. Even if they wanted to sharpen plow-blades, picks, axes, sickles,<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and pitchforks<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> they still had to go to them. And the Philistines charged high prices. </span><span class="v9_13_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.22" class="v9_13_22">22</span>So, whenever the Israelite soldiers had to go into battle, none of them had a sword or a spear except Saul and his son Jonathan.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_13_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.13.23" class="v9_13_23">23</span>The Philistines moved their camp to the pass at Michmash,</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a young man: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text; several manuscripts of one ancient translation have “thirty years old.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.1,2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">for … Then: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">everyone else: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">People who were not full-time soldiers, but fought together with the army when the nation was in danger.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jonathan: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Saul's son (see verse 16).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Michmash … Bethel … Gibeah: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">These three towns form a triangle, with Bethel to the north.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Geba: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Geba was between Gibeah and Michmash.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">led an attack … destroyed, but: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “killed the Philistine military governor who lived at Geba, and.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">destroyed … Geba: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “killed the Philistine military governor who lived at Geba.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">3,000: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations; Hebrew “30,000.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.5 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Beth-Aven: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This Beth-Aven was probably located about one and a half kilometers southwest of Michmash, between Michmash and Geba.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">in … bushes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “in cracks in the rocks.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">tombs: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew word may mean a room cut into solid rock and used as a burial place, or it may mean a cellar.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.7 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Still others: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This translates a Hebrew word which may be used of wandering groups of people who sometimes became outlaws or hired soldiers (see also 14.21).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Samuel … to do: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 10.8.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Then Samuel … counted them: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Two ancient translations; Hebrew “Then Samuel left Gilgal and went to Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul counted his army.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.20,21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">cattle prod: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A pole used to poke cattle and make them move.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.20,21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sickles: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation; Hebrew “plow-blades.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.20,21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">pitchforks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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