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1 Samuel 13:1

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SAUL reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
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  1. Exodus 12:5Rank 1 from verse 1
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    5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

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    6¶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

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1 Samuel 13:1

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reigned

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Past-tense or past-participial form of reign (to rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority).

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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13:1SAUL reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

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13:2Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

13:3And 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.

13:4And 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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