Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,1,2 Saul's select band 3,4 He calls the Hebrews to Gilgal against the Philistines, whose garrison Jonathan had smitten 5 The Philistines' great host 6,7 The distress of the Israelites 8-10 Saul, weary of staying for Samuel, sacrifices 11-16 Samuel reproves him 17,18 The three spoiling bands of the Philistines 19-23 The policy of the Philistines, to suffer no smith in Israel
A.M. 2911 B.C. 1093 An. Ex. Is. 398
reigned one year [heb] the son of one year in his reigning. This verse is variously interpreted; but probably it only means, according to the Hebrew idiom, that, during the first year nothing remarkable occurred; but after two years, (or in the second year of his reign,) the subsequent events took place. Ex 12:5 Mic 6:6

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