1Sha’ul [desired] reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],

2Sha’ul [desired] chose him three thousand [men] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; [whereof] two thousand were with Sha’ul [desired] in Mikhmas [hidden] and in mount Beit-El [House of God], and a thousand were with Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] in Giv’ah [Hill] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. 3And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] struck the Garrison (fortification; military post) of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] that [was] in Geva [hill], and the P’lishtim [Immigrants] heard [of it]. And Sha’ul [desired] blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] hear. 4And all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard say [that] Sha’ul [desired] had smitten a Garrison (fortification; military post) of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and [that] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] also was had in abomination with the P’lishtim [Immigrants]. And the people were called together after Sha’ul [desired] to Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling].

5And the P’lishtim [Immigrants] gathered themselves together to fight with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Mikhmas [hidden], eastward from Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity]. 6When the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. 7And [some of] the ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] went over Yarden [Descender] to the land of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and Gil’ad [Rocky Region]. As for Sha’ul [desired], he [was] yet in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], and all the people followed him trembling.

8And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Sh’mu’el [His name is El] [had appointed]: but Sh’mu’el [His name is El] came not to Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling]; and the people were scattered from him. 9And Sha’ul [desired] said, Bring here a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. 10And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Sh’mu’el [His name is El] came; and Sha’ul [desired] went out to meet him, that he might salute him. 11And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] said, What have youⁱ done? And Sha’ul [desired] said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] youⁱ came not within the days appointed, and [that] the P’lishtim [Immigrants] gathered themselves together at Mikhmas [hidden]; 12Therefore said I, The P’lishtim [Immigrants] will come down now upon me to Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], and I have not made supplication unto the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering. 13And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] said to Sha’ul [desired], youⁱ have done foolishly: youⁱ have not kept the commandment of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youⁱ God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which he commanded youⁱ: for now would the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) have established youⁱ kingdom upon Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] forever. 14But now youⁱ kingdom shall not continue: the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because youⁱ have not kept [that] which the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded youⁱ.

15And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] arose, and got him up from Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling] unto Giv’ah [Hill] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]. And Sha’ul [desired] numbered the people [that were] present with him, about six hundred men. 16And Sha’ul [desired], and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Giv’ah [Hill] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]: but the P’lishtim [Immigrants] encamped in Mikhmas [hidden]. 17And the spoilers came out of the camp of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] in three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leads to] ‘Ofrah [Fawn], unto the land of Shu’al [jackal]: 18And another company turned the way [to] Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness]: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looks to the valley of Tzvoyim [Gazelles] toward the wilderness.

19Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for the P’lishtim [Immigrants] said, Lest the ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] make [them] swords or spears: 20But all the Yisra’eli’s went down to the P’lishtim [Immigrants], to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter (a sharp iron blade on the front of a plow that cuts into the soil), and his axe, and his mattock (hoe or other tool to break up dirt). 21Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 22So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Sha’ul [desired] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given]: but with Sha’ul [desired] and with Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] his son was there found. 23And the Garrison (fortification; military post) of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] went out to the passage of Mikhmas [hidden].