The Bible Story - Volume VI - Chapter 86 - Basil Wolverton - 1968

Basil Wolverton

WITHOUT AN ARMY, WHEN Jonathan overran a Philistine garrison, king Saul called for men to come to Gilgal to get ready for war with the Philistines. Thousands of Israelites obeyed the summons. (I Samuel 13:1-4.) But when they learned that a huge fighting force of enemy foot soldiers, horsemen and charioteers was approaching from the west, panic overcame them. Saul Disobeys God. A great part of the would-be troops fled out of Gilgal to hide in groves, bushes, pits, gullies, on hilltops and anywhere they thought they could conceal themselves from the enemy. Some scattered across the Jordan river into the territory of Gad. A small part of the Israelite men mustered enough courage to stay with Saul in Gilgal, but the king was discouraged at such a display of cowardice by so many. (I Samuel 13:5-7.) - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library