Help, Help, We're Beating Ourselves

Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them. If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us. And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his amourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling. And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.-1 Samuel 14:8-16***Samuel the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi, and Saul from the tribe of Benjamin were Israelites. When Samuel was introducing Saul  as the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised Land, the Lord God told Samuel where Saul was hiding. Saul did not remain hidden and proved to be an aggressive and valiant fighter in a victory over the Ammonites. Sometime thereafter Saul's son Jonathan attacked a Philistine outpost. The Philistines gathered to battle the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. The Israelite men hid in caves, cliffs, underbrush, and pits, except for those who were with Saul and Jonathan. Without Saul's knowledge, and with his faithful armor-bearer slaying Philistine survivors, Jonathan made another attack against the Philistines. The Lord God caused the earth to quake throughout every area of the Philistines' camps, and Saul discovered that Jonathan and Jonathan's armor-bearer were missing. When Saul was speaking to Ahiah the priest, the commotion among the Philistines rose. During Saul's reign, Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. While Saul was reigning, the Lord God sent Samuel to anoint David, a shepherd, to reign as king. David began to serve as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul, and killed Goliath the gigantic Philistine, and made a covenant with Jonathan, and married Saul's daughter Michal, and lived on the run from Saul. After Jonathan and 2 of his brothers were killed by the Philistines, and Saul's self-inflicted death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah, David' birth tribe, anointed 30-year-old David, and David began to reign as king only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) reigned over the other Israelite tribes. After Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed David, and 37 1/2-year-old became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. Over 900 years after Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-11:43, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-9:31, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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