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)
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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 14
Tanakh 52 verses
- 1 Now it fell upon a day, that the son of said unto the young man that bore his armour: ‘Come and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not his father.
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And tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men,
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and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the of in , wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that was gone.
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And between the passes, by which sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side; and the of the one was Bozez, and the of the other Seneh.
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- 5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmas, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
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And said to the young man that bore his armour: ‘Come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that will work for us; for there is no restraint to to by many or by few.’
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And his armour-bearer said unto him: ‘Do all that is in thy ; turn thee, behold I am with thee according to thy .’
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Then said : ‘Behold, we will pass over unto the men, and we will disclose ourselves unto them.
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If they say thus unto us: Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
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But if they say thus: Come up unto us; then we will go up; for hath delivered them into our hand; and this shall be the sign unto us.’
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And both of them disclosed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said: ‘Behold Hebrews coming forth out of the holes where they hid themselves.’
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- 12 And the men of the garrison spoke to and his armour-bearer, and said: ‘Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.’ And said unto his armour-bearer: ‘Come up after me; for hath delivered them into the hand of .’
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And climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armour-bearer after him; and they fell before ; and his armour-bearer slew them after him.
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- 14 And that first slaughter, which and his armour-bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
- 15 And there was a trembling in the camp in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked; so it grew into a terror from .
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And the watchmen of in Gibeath-benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went hither and thither.
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- 17 Then said unto the people that were with him: ‘Number now, and see who is gone from us.’ And when they had numbered, behold, and his armour-bearer were not there.
- 18 And said unto Ahijah: ‘Bring hither the of .’ For the of was there at that time with the children of .
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And it came to pass, while talked unto the , that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and said unto the : ‘Withdraw thy hand.’
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And and all the people that were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
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Now the Hebrews that were with the Philistines as beforetime, and that went up with them into the camp round about; even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with and .
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Likewise all the men of that had hid themselves in the hill-country of , when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
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So saved that day; and the battle passed on as far as Beth-aven.
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- 24 And the men of were distressed that day; but adjured the people, saying: ‘Cursed be the man that eateth any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on mine enemies.’ So none of the people tasted food.
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And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.
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And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
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But heard not when his father charged the people with the oath; and he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
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Then answered one of the people, and said: ‘Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.’
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Then said : ‘My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, how mine eyes are brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?’
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And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmas to Aijalon; and the people were very faint.
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- 32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the .
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Then they told , saying: ‘Behold, the people sin against , in that they eat with the .’ And he said: ‘Ye have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone unto me this day.’
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- 34 And said: ‘Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them: Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against in eating with the .’ And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
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And built an unto ; the same was the first that he built unto .
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- 36 And said: ‘Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.’ And they said: ‘Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee.’ Then said the : ‘Let us draw near hither unto .’
- 37 And asked counsel of : ‘Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into the hand of ?’ But He answered him not that day.
- 38 And said: ‘Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
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For, as liveth, who saveth , though it be in my son, he shall surely die.’ But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
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Then said he unto all : ‘Be ye on one side, and I and my son will be on the other side.’ And the people said unto : ‘Do what seemeth good unto thee.’
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Therefore said unto , the of : ‘Declare the right.’ And and were taken by lot; but the people escaped.
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- 42 And said: ‘Cast lots between me and my son.’ And was taken.
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Then said to : ‘Tell me what thou hast done.’ And told him, and said: ‘I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; here am I: I will die.’
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- 44 And said: ‘ do so and more also; thou shalt surely die, .’
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And the people said unto : ‘Shall die, who hath wrought this great in ? Far from it; as liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with this day.’ So the people rescued , that he died not.
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- 46 Then went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
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So took the over , and fought against all his enemies on every side, against , and against the children of Ammon, and against , and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.
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And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
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- 49 Now the sons of were , and Ishvi, and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the of the first-born Merab, and the of the younger Michal;
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and the of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz; and the of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
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And Kish was the father of , and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of ; and when saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
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