RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

the Plishtim went up against Yisrael. And when the
children of Yisrael heard it, they were afraid of the
Plishtim.
8 And the children of Yisrael said to Schmuel, Don’t stop
crying to vuvh our Elohim for us, that He will save us out
of the hand of the Plishtim.
9 And Schmuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a
burnt offering wholly to vuvh: and Schmuel shouted to
vuvh for Yisrael; and vuvh heard him.
10 And as Schmuel was offering up the burnt offering, the
Plishtim drew near to battle against Yisrael: but vuvh
thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the
Plishtim, and troubled them; and they were smitten before
Yisrael.
11 And the men of Yisrael went out of Mitzpah, and
pursued the Plishtim, and smote them, until they came
under Beth-Kar.
12 Then Schmuel took a stone, and set it between
Mitzpah and Shen, and called the name of it Even-Ezer,
saying, So far has vuvh helped us.
13 So the Plishtim were subdued, and they came no more
into the borders of Yisrael: and the hand of vuvh was
against the Plishtim all the days of Schmuel.
14 And the cities which the Plishtim had taken from
Yisrael were restored to Yisrael, from Ekron even to Gat;
and all its borders did Yisrael deliver out of the hands of
the Plishtim. And there was shalom between Yisrael and
the Amorites.
15 And Schmuel was shophet in Yisrael all the days of his
chayim.
16 And he went from year to year and made rounds to
Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mitzpah, and was shophet in
Yisrael in all those places.
17 And he returned to Ramah; for there was his bayit; and
there he was also the shophet in Yisrael; and there he built
an altar to vuvh.
SCHMUEL ALEF - FIRST SAMUEL
And it came to pass, when Schmuel was old, that he
made his sons the shophtim over Yisrael.
2 Now the name of his bachor was Yoel; and the name of
his second, Aviyah: and they were shophtim in Be-er-
Sheva.
3 And his sons walked not in his halacha, but turned aside
after gain, and took bribes, and perverted mishpat. 769
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Now there was a man of Benyamin, whose name was
Kish, the son of Aviel, the son of Zeror, the son of
Bechorath, the son of Aphiyah, a Benyamite, a mighty
man of power.
2 And he had a son, whose name was Shaul, a choice
young man, and handsome: and there was not among the
children of Yisrael a better looking person than him: from
4 Then all the zechanim of Yisrael gathered themselves his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the
together, and came to Schmuel to Ramah,
people.
5 And said to him, See, you are old, and your sons walk 3 And the donkeys of Kish Shaul's abba were lost. And
not in your halachot: now make us a melech to judge us Kish said to Shaul his son, Take now one of the avadim
like all the pagan nations.
with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
6 But the thing displeased Schmuel, when they said, Give 4 And he passed through Mount Efrayim, and passed
us a melech to judge us. And Schmuel made tefillah to
vuvh.
7 And vuvh said to Schmuel, Listen to the voice of the
through the land of Shalishah, but they found them not:
then they passed through the land of Shalim, and they
were not there: and he passed through the land of the
people in all that they say to you: for they have not
Benyamites, but they found them not.
rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not 5 And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Shaul
reign over them.
said to his eved that was with him, Come, and let us return;
8 According to all the works that they have done since the lest my abba stop caring for the donkeys, and get worried
day that I brought them up out of Mitzrayim even to this about us.
day, forsaking Me, and serving other elohim, so do they 6 And he said to him, See now, there is in this city a man
also to you.
of Elohim, and he is an honorable man; all that he says
9 Now therefore listen to their voice: but sternly warn comes surely to pass: now let us go there; perhaps he can
them, and show them the kind of melech that shall reign show us the way that we should go.
over them.
7 Then said Shaul to his eved, But, see, if we go, what
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10 And Schmuel told all the words of vuvh to the people
that asked for this melech from him.
11 And he said, This will be the kind of melech that shall
reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them
for himself, for his mirkavot, and to be his horsemen; and
some shall run before his mirkavot.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and
captains over fifties; and will set them to plough his
ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his
instruments of war, and instruments for his mirkavot.
13 And he will take your daughters to be perfume makers,
and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and
your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to
his avadim.
15 And he will take the ma’aser of your zera, and of your
vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his avadim.
16 And he will take your male avadim, and your female
avadim, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and
put them to his own work.
17 He will take the ma’aser of your sheep: and you shall
be his avadim.
18 And you shall cry out in that day because of your
melech that you have chosen; and vuvh will not hear you
in that day.
19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of
Schmuel; and they said, No; but we still want a melech
over us;
20 That we also may be like all the nations, 770 and that
our melech may judge us, and go out before us, and fight
our battles.
21 And Schmuel heard all the words of the people, and he
repeated them in the ears of vuvh.
22 And vuvh said to Schmuel, Listen to their voice, and
make them a melech. And Schmuel said to the men of
Yisrael, Go home every man to his city.