David Spares Saul Again. But David said to Abishai, “Do not kill him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD’S anointed [king] and be guiltless (innocent)?”
DAVID SPARES SAUL AGAIN
DAVID SPARES SAUL AGAIN
Tag: Gibeah
SAUL FIGHTS THE PHILISTINES
SAUL FIGHTS THE PHILISTINES
Saul Fights the Philistines. Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty-two years over Israel.
Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel; of whom 2,000 were with him in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent the rest of the people away, each one to his own tent.
ISRAEL’S WAR WITH THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN
ISRAEL’S WAR WITH THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN
Israel’s War with the Tribe of Benjamin. The men of Israel turned back against [the tribe of] the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city [of Gibeah] and the livestock and all that they found. They also set on fire all the [surrounding] towns which they found.
A LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE
A LEVITE AND HIS CONCUBINE
A Levite and His Concubine. Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite living [as an alien] in the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.