“Y’honatan assassinated the governor of the P’lishtim in Geva. The P’lishtim heard of it; so Sha’ul had the shofar sounded throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”-1 Samuel 13:3 Verse 3 kicks things off with a bang. We’re told that King Saul’s son Jonathan went ahead and assassinated the governor of the Philistines in […]
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1S13-3: It Is An Evil Heart That Takes Perverse Pleasure In The Downfall Of Others
“Sha’ul was — years old when he began his reign, and he had ruled Isra’el for two years, when he chose three thousand of Isra’el’s men. Two thousand of them were with Sha’ul in Mikhmas and in the hills of Beit-El, and a thousand were with Y’honatan in Giv‘at-Binyamin. The rest of the people he […]