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1 Samuel 14:1-3
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 14:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 14
Jonathan Defeats the Philistines.[a] 1 One day Jonathan, Saul’s son, said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let us cross over to the other side to that outpost of Philistines,” but he did not tell his father.
2 Saul had remained in the upper part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree that is in Migron. There were around six hundred men with him. 3 Abijah, the son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, was the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, and he wore an ephod. Now, the people did not know that Jonathan had left.
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- 1 Samuel 14:1 This section shows the declining nature of Saul’s leadership as a result of his deteriorating relationship with God.
