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“Sha’ul said, ‘Come here, all you heads of the people. Think carefully: who has committed this sin today?’” -1 Samuel 14:38 From verse 38, we’re told that Saul summoned all the heads, chiefs, and military leaders of Israel. What was going on here? Well, from Saul’s perspective, he had just initiated a divine trial to […]

Let’s continue to get our bearings by reviewing the details of what’s happened so far. Recall that Jonathan was hanging out with his armor-bearer at a place called Mikhmas (Saul’s tribal home territory of Benjamin). Jonathan and his servant were on one side of a huge dried river bed (called a WADI in Hebrew) and […]

Let’s get our bearings on where we’re at right now. So King Saul is in the midst of Israel’s first war with the Philistines which took place at a location called Mikhmas Pass. This area was basically a WADI or dry riverbed that served as a highway for traveling merchants from the Jordan River Valley […]

“Sha’ul said, ‘Let’s go after the P’lishtim by night. We’ll plunder them until dawn; we won’t leave one of them alive.’ They answered, ‘Do whatever seems good to you.’ But the cohen said, ‘Let’s approach God here.’  Sha’ul consulted God: ‘Should I go down in pursuit of the P’lishtim? Will you hand them over to […]

“That day they had attacked the P’lishtim from Mikhmas to Ayalon; but the people were very exhausted.  So the people rushed at the spoil, seizing sheep, cows and calves, slaughtering them on the ground, and eating the flesh with the blood.  Sha’ul was told, ‘Look how the people are sinning against Adonai, eating with the […]