Saul spent the rest of his life trying to kill David, but God protected David, so saul was never successful.ĭavid, who was still being chased by Saul, felt insecure, and so made an alliance with the Philistines, becoming their vassal. However, David actually killed 2,000 Philistines.ĭavid realized Saul was trying to kill him, and ran away. He even gave him his daughter Michal as a wife for him, saying it's on the condition that David kills 1,000 Philistines, think David will fall in battle. Saul spent nearly the rest of his life, chasing after David trying to kill him. Saul became jealouse off David, and started to become haughty. Once David killed Goliath, everyone found out David will be the next king. When a giant from the Philistines, named Goliath attacked the Jews, only David was able to stop him. Since Saul did not listen to God's words, God declared he will be succeeded by a man named David. Unfortanately, he failed to kill all the animals, and even did not kill the king, Agog, who, because Saul let him live, became the grandfather of Haman. Saul killed all the babies, women, children, poor quality livestock and men. Later, Samuel, as commanded by God, told Saul to kill all the Amalekites, which was in accordance with the mitzvah to do so. As a result of not keeping God's instructions, and for taking the duties of a Levite priest into his own hands, God took away Saul's kingship from his household. Samuel arrived just as Saul finished offering his sacrifices and reprimanded Saul for not obeying his instructions. But as Samuel did not arrive after 7 days and with the Israelites complaining and bugging Saul, Saul started preparing for battle by offering sacrifices. However, before a battle, Samuel had told Saul to wait for seven days after which they would meet Samuel giving Saul further instructions for the war. Saul leads the army to victory against the Ammonites, and, in both gratitude and appreciation of military skill, the people congregate at Gilgal, and acclaim Saul as king.Īt first, Saul was a great, humble king. The city's occupants send out word of this to the other tribes of Israel, and the tribes west of the Jordan assemble an army under the leadership of Saul. Under the terms of surrender, the occupants of the city would be forced into slavery, and have their right eyes removed as a sign of this.
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