## Targum Jonathan on I Samuel Chapter 13

###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:1
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כְּבַר שְׁנָא דְלֵית בֵּיהּ חוֹבִין כֵּן שָׁאוּל כַּד מְלַךְ וְתַרְתֵּין שְׁנִין מְלַךְ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
As a one year old child, in whom there is no guilt, was Saul, when he became king; and he reigned two years over Israel.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:2
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וּבְחַר לֵיהּ שָׁאוּל תְּלָתָא אַלְפִין מִיִשְׂרָאֵל וַהֲווֹ עִם שָׁאוּל תְּרֵין אַלְפִין בְּמִכְמָשׁ וּבְטוּר בֵּית אֵל וְאַלְפָא הֲווֹ עִם יוֹנָתָן בְּגִבְעֲתָא דְבֵית בִּנְיָמִין וּשְׁאַר עַמָא שְׁלַח גְבַר לְקִירְוֹהִי:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And Saul chose three thousand of Israel – two thousand were with Saul in Michmas and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand with Jonathan in The Hill of the House of Benjamin – and the rest of the people he sent away, each man to his own city.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:3
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וּמְחָא יוֹנָתָן יַת אִסְטַרְטִיגֵי פְלִישְׁתָּאֵי דִי בְגִבְעֲתָא וּשְׁמָעוּ פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי וְשָׁאוּל תָּקַע בְּשׁוֹפָרָא בְּכָל אַרְעָא לְמֵימַר יִשְׁמְעוּן יְהוּדָאֵי:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And Jonathan slew the praetor of the Philistines, who was in The Hill, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Judaeans hear.”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:4
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וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל שְׁמָעוּ לְמֵימַר מְחָא שָׁאוּל יַת אִסְטַרְטִיגֵי פְלִישְׁתָּאֵי וְאַף אִתְגְרִי יִשְׂרָאֵל בִּפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי וְאִתְכְּנִישׁוּ עַמָא בָּתַר שָׁאוּל לְגִלְגָלָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And all Israel heard it said that Saul had slain the praetor of the Philistines, and also that Israel had attacked the Philistines. And the people were gathered after Saul in Gilgal.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:5
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וּפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי אִתְכְּנִישׁוּ לְאַגָחָא קְרָבָא בְיִשְׂרָאֵל תְּלָתִין אַלְפִין רְתִיכִין וְשִׁתָּא אַלְפִין פָּרָשִׁין וְעַמָא כְּחָלָא דְעַל כֵּיף יַמָא לִסְגֵי וּסְלִיקוּ וּשְׁרוֹ בְמִכְמַשׁ מַדְנַח בֵּית אָוֶן:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the Philistines gathered together to wage war with Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and people like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmas, to the east of Beth aven.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:6
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וֶאֱנַשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל חֲזוֹ אֲרֵי עָקַת לְהוֹן אֲרֵי אִידְחַק עַמָא וְאִטַמָרוּ עַמָא בִּמְעָרָתָא וּבִמְצָדָתָא וּבִשְׁקִיפֵי כֵיפַיָא וּבִמְעָרַת טִינָרָא וּבְגוּבַיָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
When the men of Israel saw that they were in distress, because the people were pressed, the people hid themselves in caves and in strongholds and in clefts of rocks and in caves of flints and in pits.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:7
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וִיהוֹדָאֵי עֲבָרוּ יַת יַרְדְנָא לְאַרַע גָד וְגִלְעָד וְשָׁאוּל עַד כְּעַן בְּגִלְגָלָא וְכָל עַמָא אִיתְכְּנִישׁוּ בַתְרוֹהִי:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the Judaeans crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was in Gilgal until then and all the people had gathered together after him.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:8
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וְאוֹרִיךְ שַׁבְעָא יוֹמִין לְזִימְנָא דַאֲמַר לֵיהּ שְׁמוּאֵל וְלָא אָתָא שְׁמוּאֵל לְגִלְגָלָא וְאִיתְבַּדַר עַמָא מֵעִילַוֹהִי:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
He had waited seven days for the time that Samuel had said, but Samuel had not come to Gilgal and the people were scattering from him.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:9
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וַאֲמַר שָׁאוּל קְרִיבוּ לְוָתִי עֲלָתָא וְנִכְסַת קוּדְשַׁיָא וְאַסֵיק עֲלָתָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering and the holy slaughterings near to me.” And he sacrificed the burnt offering.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:10
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וַהֲוָה כְּשֵׁיצָיוּתֵיהּ לְאַסָקָא עֲלָתָא וְהָא שְׁמוּאֵל אָתָא וּנְפַק שָׁאוּל לָקֳדָמוּתֵיהּ לְמִשְׁאַל בִּשְׁלָמֵיהּ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
As soon as he had finished sacrificing the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and to inquire after his health.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:11
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וַאֲמַר שְׁמוּאֵל מָה עֲבַדְתָּא וַאֲמַר שָׁאוּל אֲרֵי חֲזֵיתִי אֲרֵי אִתְבַּדַר עַמָא מֵעִלַוַי וְאַתְּ לָא אָתֵיתָא לִזְמַן יוֹמִין וּפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי אִתְכַּנָשׁוּ לְמִכְמָשׁ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had gathered together at Michmas,


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:12
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וַאֲמָרִית כְּעַן יֶחֱתוּן פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי לְוָתִי לְגִלְגָלָא וּקְדָם יְיָ לָא צַלֵיתִי וְאִתְחַסְנֵית וְאַסְקֵית עֲלָתָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
I said, ‘Now the Philistines may come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not prayed before the LORD.’ So I forced myself and sacrificed the burnt offering.”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:13
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וַאֲמַר שְׁמוּאֵל לְשָׁאוּל טְפֵישְׁתָּא לָא נְטַרְתָּא יַת תַּפְקֵידְתָּא מֵימְרָא דַייָ אֱלָהָךְ דְפַקְדָךְ אֲרֵי כְעַן אַתְקִין יְיָ יַת מַלְכוּתָךְ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל עַד עָלְמָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the speech of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for ever.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:14
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וּכְעַן מַלְכוּתָךְ לָא תִתְקַיֵם אַתְקֵין יְיָ קֳדָמוֹהִי גְבַר עָבֵיד רְעוּתֵהּ וּפַקְדֵיהּ יְיָ לְמֶהֱוֵי מַלְכָּא עַל עַמֵיהּ אֲרֵי לָא נְטַרְתָּא יַת דְפַקְדָךְ יְיָ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
But now your kingdom shall not be established. The LORD has established before Himself a man doing his will. And the LORD has commanded him to be king over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:15
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וְקָם שְׁמוּאֵל וּסְלִיק מִן גִלְגָלָא לְגִבְעֲתָא דְבִנְיָמִין וּמְנָא שָׁאוּל יַת עַמָא דְאִשְׁתְּכָּחוּ עִמֵיהּ כְּשִׁית מֵאָה גַבְרָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to The Hill of the House of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were found with him: about six hundred men.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:16
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וְשָׁאוּל וְיוֹנָתָן בְּרֵיהּ וְעַמָא דְאִשְׁתְּכַח עִמְהוֹן יַתְבִין בְּגִבְעֲתָא דְבֵית בִּנְיָמִן וּפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי שְׁרוֹ בְמִכְמָשׁ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were found with them, stayed in The Hill of the House of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmas.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:17
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וּנְפַק מְחַבְּלָא מִמַשְׁרִיתָא פְלִישְׁתָּאֵי תְּלָתָא מַשִׁירְיָן מַשְׁרִיתָא חֲדָא מִתְפַּנְיָא לְאוֹרַח עָפְרָה לְאַרְעָא דָרוֹמָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the destroyer came out of the camp of the Philistines in three armies: one army turned toward Ophrah to the land of the South;


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:18
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וּמַשְׁרִיתָא חֲדָא מִתְפַּנְיָא לְאוֹרַח בֵּית חוֹרוֹן וּמַשְׁרִיתָא חֲדָא מִתְפַּנְיָא לְאוֹרַח תְּחוּמָא דְמִסְתְּכֵי לְחֵילַת אַפְעַיָא לְמַדְבְּרָא:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
another army turned toward Beth horon, and another army turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of the Hyenas, on the wilderness.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:19
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וְאוּמַן עֲבֵיד זְיַן לָא מִשְׁתְּכַח בְּכָל תְּחוּם אַרְעָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל אֲרֵי אֲמָרוּ פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי דִלְמָא יַעְבְּדוּן יְהוּדָאִין סַיְפִין אוֹ רוֹמְחִין:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
There was no craftsman, making equipment, to be found throughout all the territory of the Land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “Lest the Judaeans make themselves swords or spears”.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:20
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וּנְחָתוּ כָל יִשְׂרָאֵל לְאַרְעָא פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי לְחָרָפָא גְבַר יַת פְּרָשֵׁיהּ וְיַת סִיכַת פַּדָנֵיהּ וְיַת כּוּלְבֵיהּ וְיַת עוּשְׁפֵיהּ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
But all Israel went down to the land of the Philistines, each man to sharpen his goad and the ploughshare of his yoke and his axe and his chisel.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:21
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וַהֲוֵי לְהוֹן שׁוֹפִינָא לְחָרָפָא בֵּיהּ פִּגְמַת כָּל מָאן דְבַרְזֶל לְעוּשְׁפַיָא וּלְסִיכַת פַדְנַיָא וּלְמִצְלַת קַצְרַיָא דִי לָהּ תְּלַת שְׁנִין וּלְכוּלְבַיָא וּלְאַנְצְבָא זָקָת:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And they had the file to sharpen on it the dullness of every iron utensil – for the chisels and for the pin of the yokes and for the fork of the fullers, which had three teeth, and for axes – and to point the goad.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:22
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וַהֲוָה בְּיוֹמָא דִקְרָבָא וְלָא אִשְׁתְּכַח חַרְבָּא וּמוּרְנִיתָא בְּיַד כָּל עַמָא דְעִם שָׁאוּל וְעִם יוֹנָתָן וּמַשְׁכְּחָא לְשָׁאוּל וּלְיוֹנָתָן בְּרֵיהּ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and with Jonathan, but for Saul and Jonathan his son they were found.


###### Targum Jonathan on I Samuel 13:23
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וּנְפַק אִסְטַרְטִיג פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי לִמְגִיזַת מִכְמָשׁ:

**The Targum of Samuel; trans. E. van Staalduine-Sulman. Leiden: Brill, 2002:**
And the praetor of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmas.