These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 13
Tanakh 23 verses
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was —years old when he began to reign; and two years he reigned over .
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- 2 And chose him three thousand men of ; whereof two thousand were with in Michmas and in the mount of Beth-el, and a thousand were with in Gibeath-benjamin; and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
- 3 And smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And blew the horn throughout all the land, saying: ‘Let the Hebrews .’
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And all heard say that had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and that also had made himself odious with the Philistines. And the people were gathered together after to .
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- 5 And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with , thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude; and they came up, and pitched in Michmas, eastward of Beth-aven.
- 6 When the men of saw that they were in a strait—for the people were distressed—then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in holds, and in pits.
- 7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the to the land of and ; but as for , he was yet in , and all the people followed him trembling.
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And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that had appointed; but came not to ; and the people were scattered from him.
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- 9 And said: ‘Bring hither to me the burnt- and the -offerings.’ And he offered the burnt-.
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And it came to pass that, as soon as he had made an end of the burnt-, behold, came; and went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
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- 11 And said: ‘What hast thou done?’ And said: ‘Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together against Michmas;
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therefore said I: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to , and I have not entreated the favour of ; I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-.’
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- 13 And said to : ‘Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the of thy , which He commanded thee; for now would have established thy upon for ever.
- 14 But now thy shall not continue; hath sought him a man after His own , and hath appointed him to be prince over His people, because thou hast not kept that which commanded thee.’
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And arose, and got him up from unto Gibeath-benjamin. And numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
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And , and his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeath-benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmas.
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And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;
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- 18 and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of ; for the Philistines said: ‘Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears’;
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- 20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- 21 And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.
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So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with and ; but with and with his son was there found.
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And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmas.
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