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after vaine things which cannot profite you, nor that the Philistims gathered themselues together
deliuer you, for they are but vanitie) 22 For the to Michmash, 12 Therefore said I, The Philistims
Lord will not forsake his people for his great will come downe nowe vpon me to Gilgal, and I
Names sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to haue not made supplication vnto the Lord. I was
make you his people. 23 Moreouer God forbid, bolde therefore and offred a burnt offring. 13 And
that I should sinne against the Lord, and cease Samuel saide to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly:
praying for you, but I will shewe you the good and thou hast not kept the commandement of the
right way. 24 Therefore feare you the Lord, and Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for
serue him in the trueth with all your hearts, and the Lord had nowe stablished thy kingdome vpon
consider howe great things he hath done for you. Israel for euer. 14 But nowe thy kingdom shall
25 But if ye doe wickedly, ye shall perish, both yee, not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man
and your King. after his owne heart, and the Lord hath com-
manded him to be gouernour ouer his people,
13 because thou hast not kept that which the Lord
1 Saul nowe had beene King one yeere, and he had commanded thee. 15 And Samuel arose, and
reigned two yeeres ouer Israel. Then Saul chose gate him vp from Gilgal in Gibeah of Beniamin:
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him three thousand of Israel: and two thousande and Saul nombred the people that were found
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were with Saul in Michmash, and in mount Beth- with him, about sixe hundreth men. And
el, and a thousande were with Ionathan in Gibeah Saul and Ionathan his sonne, and the people
of Beniamin: and the rest of the people he sent that were found with them, had their abiding in
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euery one to his tent. And Ionathan smote the Gibeah of Beniamin: but the Philistims pitched
garison of the Philistims, that was in the hill: and in Michmash. 17 And there came out of the hoste
it came to the Philistims eares: and Saul blewe of the Philistims three bandes to destroie, one
the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, bande turned vnto the way of Ophrah vnto the
Heare, O yee Ebrewes. 4 And al Israel heard say, lande of Shual, 18 And another bad turned toward
the way to Beth-horon, and the third band turned
Saul hath destroied a garison of the Philistims: toward the way of the coast that looketh toward
wherefore Israel was had in abomination with
the Philistims: and the people gathered together the valley of Zeboim, towarde the wildernesse.
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after Saul to Gilgal. The Philistims also gathered 19 Then there was no smith founde throughout
themselues together to fight with Israel, thirty all the land of Israel: for the Philistims sayde,
thousand charets, and sixe thousande horsemen: Lest the Ebrewes make them swordes or speares.
for the people was like the sand which is by the 20 Wherefore all ye Israelites went downe to the
seas side in multitude, and came vp, and pitched Philistims, to sharpen euery man his share, his
in Michmash Eastward from Beth-auen. 6 And mattocke, and his axe, and his weeding hooke.
when the men of Israel saw that they were in a 21 Yet they had a file for the shares, and for the
strait(forthepeoplewereindistresse)thepeople mattockes, and for the picke forkes, and for the
hid themselues in caues, and in holdes, and in axes, and for to sharpen the goades. 22 So whe the
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rockes, and in towres, and in pittes. And some of day of battell was come, there was neither sworde
the Ebrewes went ouer Iorden vnto the lande of nor speare founde in the handes of any of the
Gad and Gilead: and Saul was yet in Gilgal, and people that were with Saul and with Ionathan:
al the people for feare followed him. 8 And he but onely with Saul and Ionathan his sonne was
taried seuen daies, according vnto the time that there founde. 23 And the garison of the Philistims
Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to came out to the passage of Michmash.
Gilgal, therefore the people were scattered from
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him. And Saul sayde, Bring a burnt offering to 14
me and peace offrings: and he offered a burnt
offering. 10 And assoone as hee had made an ende 1 Then on a day Ionathan the sonne of Saul
of offering the burnt offering, beholde, Samuel sayde vnto the yong man that bare his armour,
came: and Saul went foorth to meete him, to Come and let vs goe ouer towarde the Philistims
salute him. 11 And Samuel saide, What hast garison, that is yonder on the other side, but
thou done? Then Saul saide, Because I sawe he tolde not his father. 2 And Saul taried in
that the people was scattred from me, and that the border of Gibeah vnder a pomegranate tree,
thou camest not within the daies appoynted, and which was in Migron, and the people that were