* back.  Heb. shoulder.  gave.  Heb. turned.  another heart.
  6 
 * and all those signs.
   The following history of Saul is given by the Afghans, a
   people generally supposed to be of Jewish origin:  "In a war
   which raged between the children of Israel and the Amalekites,
   the latter being victorious, plundered the Jews, and obtained
   possession of the ark of the covenant.  Considering this [as]
   the God of the Jews, they threw it into the fire, which did
   not affect it.  They afterwards attempted to cleave it with
   axes, but without success:  every individual who treated it
   with indignity, was punished for his temerity.  They then
   placed it in their temple; but all their idols bowed to it.
   At length they fastened it upon a cow, which they turned loose
   in the wilderness.  When the prophet Samuel arose, the
   children of Israel said to him, 'We have been totally subdued
   by the Amalekites, and have no king.  Raise to us a king, that
   we may be enabled to contend for the glory of God.'  Samuel
   said, 'In case you are led out to battle, are you determined
   to fight?'  They answered, 'What has befallen us, that we
   should not fight against infidels?  That nation has banished
   us from our country and children.'  At this time the angel
   Gabriel descended, and delivering a wand, said, 'It is the
   command of God, that the person whose stature shall correspond
   with this wand, shall be king of Israel.'  Melec T(a06c)ㄅ was at
   that time a man of inferior condition, and performed the
   humble employment of feeding the goats and cows of others.
   One day, a cow under his charge was accidentally lost.  Being
   disappointed in his searches, he was greatly distressed, and
   applied to Samuel saying, 'I have lost a cow, and I do not
   possess the means of satisfying the owner.  Pray for me that I
   may be extricated from this difficulty.'  Samuel perceiving
   that he was a man of lofty stature, asked his name.  He
   answered, T(a06c)ㄅ.  Samuel then said, 'Measure T(a06c)ㄅ with the
   wand which the angel Gabriel brought.'  His stature was equal
   to it.  Samuel then said, 'God has raised T(a06c)ㄅ to be your
   king.'  The children of Israel answered, 'We are greater than
   our king.  We are men of dignity, and he is of inferior
   condition.  How shall he be our king?'  Samuel informed them,
   they should know that God had constituted T(a06c)ㄅ king, by his
   restoring the ark of the covenant.  He accordingly restored
   it, and they acknowledged him their sovereign."  Asiatic
   Researches, vol. ii. p. 119, et seq.

  2-5  Jud 6:21,36-40  7:11  Isa 38:7,8  Mr 14:16