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13 Come on, let’s try to get as far as Gibeah or Ramah, and we’ll spend the night in one of those towns.”

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“Sound the alarm in Gibeah!
    Blow the trumpet in Ramah!
Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven[a]!
    Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin!

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Footnotes

  1. 5:8 Beth-aven means “house of wickedness”; it is being used as another name for Bethel, which means “house of God.”

29 They are crossing the pass
    and are camping at Geba.
Fear strikes the town of Ramah.
    All the people of Gibeah, the hometown of Saul,
    are running for their lives.

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26 When Saul returned to his home at Gibeah, a group of men whose hearts God had touched went with him.

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28 Zela, Haeleph, the Jebusite town (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim[a]—fourteen towns with their surrounding villages.

This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:28 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads Kiriath.

25 Also Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, 26 Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,

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