“Y’honatan assassinated the governor of the P’lishtim in Geva.“-1 Samuel 13:3 Before we go any further in our text study of 1st Samuel, I need to clear up some confusion between the two names of GEVA and GIVEAH. GEVA was where Jonathan assassinated the governor of the Philistines. However, many translators and scholars assume GEVA […]

“All Israel heard that Shaul had assassinated the governor of the P’lishtim and thus made Israel a stench in the nostrils of the P’lishtim. So the people rallied behind Sha’ul in Gilgal;  while the P’lishtim assembled themselves together to make war on Isra’el — 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as large as the […]

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“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 […]

“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 […]