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: