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So being desirous to turn the people to this war against the Ammonites
by fear of the losses they should otherwise undergo, and that they might
the more suddenly be gathered together, he cut the sinews of his oxen,
and threatened to do the same to all such as did not come with their armor
to Jordan the next day, and follow him and Samuel the prophet whithersoever
they should lead them. So they came together, out of fear of the losses
they were threatened with, at the appointed time. And the multitude were
numbered at the city Bezek. And he found the number of those that were
gathered together, besides that of the tribe of Judah, to be seven hundred
thousand, while those of that tribe were seventy thousand. So he passed
over Jordan, and proceeded in marching all that night, thirty furlongs,
and came to Jabesh before sun-rising. So he divided the army into three
companies; and fell upon their enemies on every side on the sudden, and
when they expected no such thing; and joining battle with them, they slew
a great many of the Ammonites, as also their king Nabash. This glorious
action was done by Saul, and was related with great commendation of him
to all the Hebrews; and he thence gained a wonderful reputation for his
valor: for although there were some of them that contemned him before,
they now changed their minds, and honored him, and esteemed him as the
best of men: for he did not content himself with having saved the inhabitants
of Jabesh only, but he made an expedition into the country of the Ammonites,
and laid it all waste, and took a large prey, and so returned to his own
country most gloriously. So the people were greatly pleased at these excellent
performances of Saul, and rejoiced that they had constituted him their
king. They also made a clamor against those that pretended he would be
of no advantage to their affairs; and they said, Where now are these men?
- let them be brought to punishment, with all the like things that multitudes
usually say when they are elevated with prosperity, against those that
lately had despised the authors of it. But Saul, although he took the good-will
and the affection of these men very kindly, yet did he swear that he would
not see any of his countrymen slain that day, since it was absurd to mix
this victory, which God had given them, with the blood and slaughter of
those that were of the same lineage with themselves; and that it was more
agreeable to be men of a friendly disposition, and so to betake themselves
to feasting.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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