1 Samuel 13:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּבְחַר־ל֨וֹ שָׁא֜וּל שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֮ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל֒ וַיִּהְי֨וּ עִם־שָׁא֜וּל אַלְפַּ֗יִם בְּמִכְמָשׂ֙ וּבְהַ֣ר בֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל וְאֶ֗לֶף הָיוּ֙ עִם־י֣וֹנָתָ֔ן בְּגִבְעַ֖ת בִּנְיָמִ֑ין וְיֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם שִׁלַּ֖ח אִ֥ישׁ לְאֹהָלָֽיו׃

Transliteration

wayyiḇḥar-lô šāʾûl šĕlōšet ʾălāp̄îm from-yiśrāʾēl wayyihyû with-šāʾûl ʾalpayim in-mikmāś and-in-har bêt-ʾēl and-ʾelep̄ hāyû with-yônātān in-giḇʿat binyāmîn and-yeter hāʿām šillaḥ ʾîš to-ʾōhālāyw

Grammar Details

*wayyiḇḥar-lô*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3ms with dative suffix - and he chose for himself
*šāʾûl*: proper noun, subject - Saul
*šĕlōšet*: construct state - three
*ʾălāp̄îm*: masculine plural - thousands
*wayyihyû*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3mp - and they were
*ʾalpayim*: masculine dual - two thousand
*ʾelep̄*: masculine singular - thousand
*hāyû*: qal perfect, 3cp - they were
*šillaḥ*: piel perfect, 3ms - he sent away
*ʾîš*: masculine singular - each man

Word Meanings

*šillaḥ*: sent away/dismissed/let go
*ʾîš*: each man/each one/individually

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 10:26 : 26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Sam 13:5 : 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.
1 Sam 14:31 : 31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
1 Sam 13:23 : 23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
1 Sam 14:5 : 5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
1 Sam 14:52 : 52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
1 Sam 15:34 : 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
2 Sam 21:6 : 6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
Isa 10:28-29 : 28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
Josh 18:28 : 28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Judg 19:12 : 12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
1 Sam 8:11 : 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Sam 13:15-17
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15And 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.
16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
17And 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:
1 Sam 14:1-2
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1Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
2And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
1 Sam 13:3-7
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3And 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.
4And 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.
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6When 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.
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1 Sam 26:2-3
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1 Sam 14:16-17
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16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
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1 Sam 15:4
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1 Chr 12:29
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1 Sam 14:40-42
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1 Sam 13:22-23
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22So 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.
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1 Sam 18:13
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13Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
1 Sam 23:13
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1 Sam 31:1-2
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2 Sam 2:15
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1 Sam 11:8
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2 Sam 6:1
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2 Sam 18:2
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1 Chr 10:1-2
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1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
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1 Sam 17:2
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1 Sam 14:13
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1 Sam 10:26
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Judg 20:15
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1 Chr 12:23
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1 Sam 14:6
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1 Sam 11:11
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