Ketidaktaatan Saul waktu orang Filistin datang menyerang
1sam 13:1 Saul berumur sekian tahun ketika ia menjadi raja; dua tahun ia memerintah atas Israel.
1sam 13:2 Saul memilih tiga ribu orang dari antara orang Israel; dua ribu orang ada bersama-sama dengan Saul di Mikhmas dan di pegunungan Betel, sedang seribu orang ada bersama-sama dengan Yonatan di Gibea Benyamin, tetapi selebihnya dari rakyat itu disuruhnya pulang, masing-masing ke kemahnya.
1sam 13:3 Yonatan memukul kalah pasukan pendudukan orang Filistin yang ada di Geba; dan hal itu terdengar oleh orang Filistin. Karena itu Saul menyuruh meniup sangkakala di seluruh negeri, sebab pikirnya: "Biarlah orang Ibrani mendengarnya."
1sam 13:4 Demikianlah seluruh orang Israel mendengar kabar, bahwa Saul telah memukul kalah pasukan pendudukan orang Filistin dan dengan demikian orang Israel dibenci oleh orang Filistin. Kemudian dikerahkanlah rakyat itu untuk mengikuti Saul ke Gilgal.
1sam 13:5 Adapun orang Filistin telah berkumpul untuk berperang melawan orang Israel. Dengan tiga ribu kereta, enam ribu orang pasukan berkuda dan pasukan berjalan kaki sebanyak pasir di tepi laut mereka bergerak maju dan berkemah di Mikhmas, di sebelah timur Bet-Awen.
1sam 13:6 Ketika dilihat orang-orang Israel, bahwa mereka terjepit--sebab rakyat memang terdesak--maka larilah rakyat bersembunyi di gua, keluk batu, bukit batu, liang batu dan perigi;
1sam 13:7 malah ada orang Ibrani yang menyeberangi arungan sungai Yordan menuju tanah Gad dan Gilead, sedang Saul masih di Gilgal dan seluruh rakyat mengikutinya dengan gemetar.
1sam 13:8 Ia menunggu tujuh hari lamanya sampai waktu yang ditentukan Samuel. Tetapi ketika Samuel tidak datang ke Gilgal, mulailah rakyat itu berserak-serak meninggalkan dia.
1sam 13:9 Sebab itu Saul berkata: "Bawalah kepadaku korban bakaran dan korban keselamatan itu." Lalu ia mempersembahkan korban bakaran.
1sam 13:10 Baru saja ia habis mempersembahkan korban bakaran, maka tampaklah Samuel datang. Saul pergi menyongsongnya untuk memberi salam kepadanya.
1sam 13:11 Tetapi kata Samuel: "Apa yang telah kauperbuat?" Jawab Saul: "Karena aku melihat rakyat itu berserak-serak meninggalkan aku dan engkau tidak datang pada waktu yang telah ditentukan, padahal orang Filistin telah berkumpul di Mikhmas,
1sam 13:12 maka pikirku: Sebentar lagi orang Filistin akan menyerang aku di Gilgal, padahal aku belum memohonkan belas kasihan TUHAN; sebab itu aku memberanikan diri, lalu mempersembahkan korban bakaran."
1sam 13:13 Kata Samuel kepada Saul: "Perbuatanmu itu bodoh. Engkau tidak mengikuti perintah TUHAN, Allahmu, yang diperintahkan-Nya kepadamu; sebab sedianya TUHAN mengokohkan kerajaanmu atas orang Israel untuk selama-lamanya.
1sam 13:14 Tetapi sekarang kerajaanmu tidak akan tetap. TUHAN telah memilih seorang yang berkenan di hati-Nya dan TUHAN telah menunjuk dia menjadi raja atas umat-Nya, karena engkau tidak mengikuti apa yang diperintahkan TUHAN kepadamu."
1sam 13:15 Kemudian berangkatlah Samuel dan pergi dari Gilgal ke Gibea Benyamin. Tetapi Saul memeriksa barisan rakyat yang ada bersama-sama dengan dia itu: kira-kira enam ratus orang banyaknya.
1sam 13:16 Saul dan Yonatan, anaknya, dan rakyat yang ada bersama-sama dengan mereka, tinggal di Geba-Benyamin, sedang orang Filistin berkemah di Mikhmas.
1sam 13:17 Maka keluarlah orang-orang penjarah dari perkemahan orang Filistin dalam tiga gerombolan: gerombolan yang satu mengambil jalan ke Ofra, ke daerah Syual;
1sam 13:18 gerombolan yang kedua mengambil jalan ke Bet-Horon, dan gerombolan yang satu lagi mengambil jalan ke perbatasan yang menghadap ke lembah Zeboim arah ke padang gurun.
1sam 13:19 Seorang tukang besi tidak terdapat di seluruh negeri Israel, sebab orang Filistin berkata: "Jangan-jangan orang Ibrani membuat pedang atau tombak."
1sam 13:20 Jadi semua orang Israel harus pergi kepada orang Filistin untuk mengasah mata bajaknya, beliungnya, kapaknya atau aritnya masing-masing--
1sam 13:21 adapun bayarannya ialah dua pertiga syikal untuk mata bajak dan beliung, dan sepertiga syikal untuk mengasah kapak dan untuk memasang kusa--
1sam 13:22 sehingga pada hari pertempuran itu sebilah pedang atau lembingpun tidak terdapat pada seluruh rakyat yang ada bersama Saul dan Yonatan. Tetapi Saul dan Yonatan, anaknya itu, masih mempunyainya.
Kepahlawanan Yonatan
1sam 13:23 Dan suatu pasukan pengawal orang Filistin telah keluar ke pelintasan gunung di Mikhmas.
1samuel 13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
1samuel 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1samuel 13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1samuel 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, 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 Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
1samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel 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.
1samuel 13:7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
1samuel 13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1samuel 13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
1samuel 13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
1samuel 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1samuel 13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
1samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
1samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1samuel 13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
1samuel 13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
1samuel 13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
1samuel 13:18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
1samuel 13:20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
1samuel 13:21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
1samuel 13:22 So 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 Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
1samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
