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1 Samuel 13:1-3
Complete Jewish Bible
1 Samuel 13:1-3
Complete Jewish Bible
13 Sha’ul was — years old[a] when he began his reign, and he had ruled Isra’el for two years, 2 when he chose three thousand of Isra’el’s men. Two thousand of them were with Sha’ul in Mikhmas and in the hills of Beit-El, and a thousand were with Y’honatan in Giv‘at-Binyamin. The rest of the people he sent back to their respective tents.
3 Y’honatan assassinated the governor of the P’lishtim in Geva. The P’lishtim heard of it; so Sha’ul had the shofar sounded throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
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- 1 Samuel 13:1 The Hebrew text lacks the number.
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