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SAUL, THE FIRST KING OF THE ISRAELITES

© 1931, BY BENZIGER BROfHERS
THE CAMPAIGNS OF KING SAUL
their new king and sent messengers to him.
sengers found Saul working in the eld. He cut up the oxen with which he was plowing and sent a portion
to every tribe, with the warning that what ad hap­ pened to the oxen would happen to those persons of every tribe who would not follow him and Samuel in the war against the Ammonites. Thus did he raise his rst army for the protection of Israel.
An immense number of Israelites answered this call to battle, and Jabes Galaad was saved. The Ammo-
The mes­
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