PART TWO THE REIGN OF SAUL 1 Samuel 13:1 to 1 Samuel 31:13 A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 13 1 Samuel 13:1-4 _Saul's campaign against the Philistines._ The initial victory over the Ammonites at Jabesh-gilead must have given the Israelites courage to go against their chief oppressors, the Philistines. Jonat... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REIGN OF SAUL. 1 Samuel 13:1 to 1 Samuel 31:13 The early days of Saul's reign, 1 Samuel 13:1 to 1 Samuel 14:52. Saul's Campaign Against the Philistines, 1 Samuel 13:1-4 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, 2 Saul chose him three thousand _men_ of Israel; _whe... [ Continue Reading ]
THE COUNTER-ATTACK OF THE PHILISTINES. 1 SAMUEL 13:5-7 5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which _is_ on the seashore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_Saul's Presumptuous Sacrifice._ 1 Samuel 13:8-10 8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel _bad 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... [ Continue Reading ]
_Samuel's Rebuke of Saul._ 1 Samuel 13:11-16 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,... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Battle Pitched._ 1 Samuel 13:17-23 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 company turned _to_ the way o... [ Continue Reading ]