1 Samuel 13:2New Messianic Version BibleSha’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. See the chapter |
And 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].
And Tzela [a rib], Eleph, and Y’vusi [Descendants of Y’vus (“hard trampled” or “the waterless hill”)], which [is] Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], Giv’at [Hill], [and] Kiryat [City]; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] according to their families.
After that youi shall come to the hill of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], where [is] the Garrison (fortification; military post) of the P’lishtim [Immigrants]: and it shall come to pass, when youi are come there to the city, that youi shall meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a Psaltery (stringed instrument, like an harp), and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
Then Sha’ul [desired] arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)], having three thousand chosen men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, to seek David [beloved] in the wilderness of Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)].
And there happened to be there a man of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], whose name [was] Sheva [Seven], the son of Bikhri [youthful], from the tribe of Binyamin [A Son of the Right Hand]: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David [beloved], neither have we inheritance in the son of Yishai [I possess]: every man to his tents, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].