RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

efore vuvh all the tzadik acts of vuvh, which He did to
you and to your ahvot.
8 When Yaakov had come into Mitzrayim, and your
ahvot cried out to vuvh, then vuvh sent Moshe and
Aharon, who brought forth your ahvot out of Mitzrayim,
and made them dwell in this place.
9 And when they forgot vuvh their Elohim, He sold them
into the hand of Sisra, leader of the host of Hatzor, and
into the hand of the Plishtim, and into the hand of the
melech of Moav, and they fought against them.
10 And they cried out to vuvh, and said, We have sinned,
because we have forsaken vuvh, and have served the
Ba’alim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand
of our enemies, and we will serve you.
11 And vuvh sent Yeruvaal, and Bedan, and Yiphtach,
and Schmuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your
enemies on every side, and you dwelt safely.
12 And when you saw that Nachash the melech of the
children of Ammon came against you, you said to me,
No; but a melech shall reign over us: when vuvh your
Elohim was your melech.
13 Now therefore see the melech whom you have chosen,
and whom you have desired! And, see, vuvh has set a
melech over you.
14 If you will fear vuvh, and serve Him, and obey His
voice, and not rebel against the mitzvoth of vuvh, then
shall both you and also the melech that reigns over you
continue following vuvh your Elohim:
15 But if you will not obey the voice of vuvh, but rebel
against the commandment of vuvh, then shall the hand of
vuvh be against you, as it was against your ahvot.
16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which
vuvh will do before your eyes.
17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to vuvh, and
He shall send thunder and rain; that you may perceive and
see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in
the sight of vuvh, in asking for a melech.
18 So Schmuel called to vuvh; and vuvh sent thunder and
rain that day: and all the people greatly feared vuvh and
Schmuel.
19 And all the people said to Schmuel, Make tefillah for
your avadim to vuvh your Elohim, that we die not: for we
have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a melech.
20 And Schmuel said to the people, Fear not: you have
done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from
following vuvh, but serve vuvh with all your lev;
21 And turn not aside: for then you would go after
worthless things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they
are worthless.
22 For vuvh will not forsake His people for His great
Name's sake: because it has pleased vuvh to make you His
people.
23 Moreover as for me, Elohim forbid that I should sin
against vuvh in ceasing to make tefillah for you: but I will
teach you the tov and the correct halacha:
24 Only fear vuvh, and serve Him in emet with all your
lev: for consider how great things He has done for you.
25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be
consumed, both you and your melech.
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Shaul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two
years over Yisrael,
2 Shaul chose three thousand men of Yisrael; of which
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two thousand were with Shaul in Michmash and in Mount
Bethel, and a thousand were with Yonathan in Givah of
Benyamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to
his tent.
3 And Yonathan smote the watch-post of the Plishtim that
was in Geva, and the Plishtim heard of it. And Shaul blew
the shofar throughout all the land, saying, Let the Ivrim
listen.
4 And kol Yisrael heard that Shaul had smitten a watchpost
of the Plishtim, and that Yisrael also was held in
contempt by the Plishtim. And the people were called
together by Shaul to Gilgal.
5 And the Plishtim gathered themselves together to fight
with Yisrael, thirty thousand mirkavot, and six thousand
horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea
shore in multitude: and they came up, and camped in
Michmash, eastward of Beth-Aven.
6 When the men of Yisrael saw that they were in trouble,
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.
7 And some of the Ivrim went over the Yarden River to
the land of Gad and Gilad. As for Shaul, he was yet in
Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that
Schmuel had appointed: but Schmuel came not to Gilgal;
and the people were scattered from him.
9 And Shaul said, Bring here a burnt offering to me, and
shalom offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an
end of offering the burnt offering, see, Schmuel came;
and Shaul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.
11 And Schmuel said, What have you done? And Shaul
said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from
me, and that you came not within the days appointed, and
that the Plishtim gathered themselves together at
Michmash;
12 Therefore said I, The Plishtim will come down now
upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to
vuvh: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt
offering.
13 And Schmuel said to Shaul, You have done foolishly:
you have not kept the commandment of vuvh your
Elohim, which He commanded you: for now would vuvh
have established your malchut upon Yisrael
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14 But now your malchut shall not continue: vuvh has
sought Himself a man after His own lev, and vuvh has
commanded him to be the leader over His people, because
you have not kept that which vuvh commanded you.
15 And Schmuel arose, and got up from Gilgal to Givah
of Benyamin. And Shaul numbered the people that were
present with him, about six hundred men.
16 And Shaul, and Yonathan his son, and the people that
were present with them, stayed in Givah of Benyamin:
but the Plishtim camped in Michmash.
17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Plishtim
in three troops: one troop turned to the way that leads to
Ophrah, to the land of Shual:
18 And another troop turned the way to Beth-Horon: and
another troop turned to the way of the border that looks to
the Valley of Zevoim toward the wilderness.
19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the