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1 Samuel 14
1 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11,12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24,
25, 26,
27, 28,
29, 30,
31
1 Samuel 14:1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said
unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree
which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred
men;
3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son
of Eli, the Lord's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not
that Jonathan was gone.
4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the
Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock
on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other
Seneh.
5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the
other southward over against Gibeah.
6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go
over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work
for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.
7 And his armourn bearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee;
behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will
discover ourselves unto them.
9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still
in our place, and will not go up unto them.
10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the Lord hath
delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.
11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines:
and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where
they had hid themselves.
12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armour bearer, and said,
Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his
armour bearer, Come up after me: for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand
of Israel.
13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his
armour bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armour bearer slew
after him.
14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour bearer made, was about
twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might
plow.
15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people:
the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it
was a very great trembling.
16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the
multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is
gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armour bearer
were not there.
18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was
at that time with the children of Israel.
19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that
was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the
priest, Withdraw thine hand.
20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they
came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and
there was a very great discomfiture.
21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which
went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also
turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
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The Hebrews = the tribes of Israel
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They were called so in distinction from the
foreigners among whom they lived; referring to
language rather than nationality.
22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim,
when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after
them in the battle.
23 So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
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The Lord saved Israel that day
24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the
people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may
be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
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Saul made a bad decided, he should of been
feeding the men
25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but
no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath:
wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in
an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the
people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day.
And the people were faint.
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You cannot go to war without eating
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Saul making a bad oath = not letting the men eat
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how
mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of
their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater
slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the
people were very faint.
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The people were very faint.
32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and
slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord, in that
they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone
unto me this day.
34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring
me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and
eat; and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood. And all the people
brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
35 And Saul built an altar unto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he
built unto the Lord.
36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them
until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do
whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither
unto God.
37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt
thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and
see wherein this sin hath been this day.
39 For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my
son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that
answered him.
40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son
will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good
unto thee.
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Jonathan didn't know about the oath
41 Therefore Saul said unto the Lord God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul
and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
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The LORD = "Saul said unto God: `O God of
Israel'"
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Give a perfect lot = Give perfections
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LORD God of Israel, Why hast thou not answered
Thy servant this day?
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Is the iniquity in me, or in Jonathan my son?
LORD God of Israel, Give clear; and if "the lot"
should declare this, give, I pray Thee, to Thy
People Israel, give, I pray, holiness".
42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told
him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was
in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die,
Jonathan.
45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this
great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the Lord liveth, there shall not one
hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So
the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to
their own place.
47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on
every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom,
and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever
he turned himself, he vexed them.
48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out
of the hands of them that spoiled them.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names
of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name
of the younger Michal:
50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the
name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of
Abiel.
52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when
Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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John 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not
hear them.
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