lor, what with all your heart : ' for confider || how great things he fo he hath done for youz. : 6) + y Otherwiſe neither my Prayer nor Counſels will ſtand you in any ſtead. z Or, among you, both at this time and formecly,
25 But if yeYhall till do wickedly, ye ſhall becon- ſumed, both ye and your king. | .
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Chap. Xll C H A Þ. XIIL |
Saul and Jonathans ſeleft band. Jonathan ſmiteth the gariſon of the Phi« lift:ines at Gibeah * the people are called together at Gilgaly 1 "vl The Philiflines great hoſt : the Iſraelites run 1110 CAaVes and tremble, 5, 7. Saul offereth befcre Samuel cometh to him : he reproves him for it 8 foretelleth him that his kingdom ſhoul not laſt long, 8, ---—= 14 Three c-ompanies of the Philiftines invade the land : they had no ſmith to make them ſwords, &c,. Nor had any of the Iſraelites, ſave Saul and Jonathan, ſword or ſpear, I 5, 25.
__ 1-reigned one year 4, and when he had reigned \J twoyears over Iſrael, the ſon
2 1. e. Had now reigned one Year, from his firſt Ele&ion at 97 year Mizpeh, in which time theſe things were d: ne, which are recorded pis peioy chep. I1- and 12+ to wit, Peaceably, or Righteouſly. Compare 2 jug, © Als 2+. IO» .
2 Saul choſe b him three thouſand men of Iſrael c : whereof two thouſand were with Saul in Michmaſh d, and in mount Bethel, and a thouſand were with Juna- than in Gibeah of Benjamin : and che reſt of the peo-
ple he ſent every man to his tent
b Heb. And (1. e. ) Then, asthar Adverb is oft uſed, as Gen. 3. 5-and 18. ©, &c, ) Saul choſe. c Which he thought jufficienr for conſtant Atrendance and Service, intending to ſummon the reſt when need ſhould be. 6 A Tratqt of Ground near Ramah and Bethe el, in the Border ot Benjamin, and near to the Philiſtines.
3 And Jonathan {mote the * garifon of the Phili- * Chap ſtines e that was || in Geba f, and the Philiſtines heard '%:, 5: of it : and Saul blew the trumpet throughout ali the ball land, ſaying, Let the Hebrews hear g
e The firſt Deſign of Saul and Jenathan, was to free their Land from the Gariſons which the Phil:fies had in i: 3 and they firſt be- gin toclear tf eir own Counrry ot Benjamin. f Not the ſame place called Gibeah, wv. 2. { for if the place were rhe lame, why ſhould he vary the Name of ir in the fame Story, and in the next Verſe ? Nor 1s it like y that Jonathan wouid chule that place for his Camp, where the Phil:Fines had a Gariſon: ) but ancther place in the ſame Trike, in which there were two diſtin& places, Geba and Gibeah, Joſh, 18. 24, 28. g is &» He ſent Mefſengers to tell them all whar Jonathan had done, and how rhe Philiſtines were enraged at it, and made great preparations for War ; and therefore w hat neceflity
there was of gathering themſelves together, and coming to him, for his and their own Defence.
4 And all Iſrael heard ſay, that Saul b had ſmitten a gariſon of the Philiſtines, and that Iſrael aiſo + was had + Heb: in abomination with the Philiſtines : and the people ad fi were called together after Saui 10 Gilgal 5z. |
h ( i. e. ) Jonathan by Sauls Dire&ion and Encouragement. The
AQions of an Army are commonly atcribed to taeir General. 5 The place before appointed by Samuel, chap. 10+ 8.
5 T And the Philiſtines gathered themſelves toge- ther to fight wit erfirael, thirty thouſand chariots &, and fix thouſand, men, and people as the ſand which s On the ſea-ſhore in multicude, and they came up and pitched in Michmaſh, eaſtward from * Beth-aven. + 5,q,, & T his number ſeems incredible co Infidels. To whom it may ,* and be ſufficient ro repiy, Thar it 1s far more rational to acknowledge 2, 13+ a miſtake in him chart copicd our the facred Text in ſuch Numeral or Hiſtorical paſſages, w: erein the Do&rine of Faith and good Life is not direttly concerned, than up»n ſuch a pretence to queſtion the Trurh and Divinity of rhe Holy Scr:ptures, which are fo fully Atteſted. and evident'y Demonſrared And the miſtake is not great in the Hebrew, Schaloſb for Scheliſhim; and to indeed thoſe two Ancient Tranſlators, the Syriack and Arabick tranſlate ir, and are ſuppoſed to have read in their Hebrew Copies Thre thouſand Norig it «eceſſary that all theſe ſhould be Mil:tary Chariors, bur many of | them m:gh* befer Carriage cf things belonging to ſo greatan Army; for ſuch a diſtin&tion of Chariots we find, Exod. 14: 7. Bur there is no need of this Reply. Chariots here may very well beput for the | Men that rode upon them, and fought our of them, by a Figure | called a Metonymy, of the Subje& for the Adjun&; or the thing con= : taining, for the thing contained inzit, rhan which none more fre» : quent- In the very ſame manner, and by the very ſame Figure, the : Basker 1s put for the Mar in ic, Deut. 28: 5, 17: the Wilderneſs for ' wild Beaſts of the Wi'derneſs, Pſal. 29: 8:. the Neſt, for the Birds
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:1- And tocome more cloſely ro tie point, 2n Horſe is put foran Hortſe-load of Wares laid upon it, 1 Kings 10: 28: and an Aſſe of Bread, is put for an Aſle load of Bread, both in the Hebrew Texr of 1 Sam.
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