1; Saul's select band.
3; He calls the Hebrews to Gilgal against the Philistines,
whose garrison Jonathan had smitten.
5; The Philistines' great host.
6; The distress of the Israelites.
8; Saul, weary of staying for Samuel, sacrifices.
11; Samuel reproves him.
17; The three spoiling bands of the Philistines.
19; The policy of the Philistines, to suffer no smith in
Israel.
* A.M. 2911. B.C. 1093. An. Ex. Is. 398.
* reigned one year. Heb. the son of one year in his reigning.
This verse is variously interpreted; but probably it only
means, according to the Hebrew idiom, that, during the first
year nothing remarkable occurred; but after two years, (or in
the second year of his reign,) the subsequent events took
place.
Ex 12:5 Mic 6:6 *marg:
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