1 Samuel 13:2
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Samuel 13:2 — by Collins Asein
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1 Samuel 13:2 is a verse from the book of 1 Samuel in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a ..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Samuel 13:2 — KJV
“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.”
— 1 Samuel 13:2 (KJV)
1 Samuel 13:2 in Context — About the Book of 1 Samuel
1 Samuel traces Israel's shift from judges to kings through three lives: Samuel the prophet, Saul the rejected king, and David the shepherd anointed in secret. It is rich with prayer — Hannah's desperate plea for a child opens the book and becomes a template for praying through tears.
Cross-References for 1 Samuel 13:2
“So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.”
Shares key themes with 1 Samuel 13:2: three, men, israel
“And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. present: Heb. found Gibeah: Heb. Geba”
Shares key themes with 1 Samuel 13:2: saul, michmash, jonathan
“And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.”
Shares key themes with 1 Samuel 13:2: thousand, men, israel
“And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.”
Shares key themes with 1 Samuel 13:2: thousand, men, israel
“And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. to smite...: Heb. to smite of the people wounded as at, etc the house...: or, Bethel”
Shares key themes with 1 Samuel 13:2: men, israel, bethel
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