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Saul Fights the Philistines

13 Saul was…[a] years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for… and two[b] years over Israel.

Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in (A)Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in (B)Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent. Jonathan defeated (C)the garrison of the Philistines that was (D)at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul (E)blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:1 The number is lacking in Hebrew and Septuagint
  2. 1 Samuel 13:1 Two may not be the entire number; something may have dropped out