Verse 15
THE SITUATION GROWS WORSE
"And Saul numbered the people that were with him, about six hundred men. And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies; one company turned to Ophrah, to the land of Shual, another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness."
These three raiding parties, in the order mentioned here, went north, east and west throughout Israel; but they did not go south, because Saul and Jonathan with their troops lay in that direction. The purpose of those raiding companies will be explained in the next paragraph.
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