207 Saul’s Demise the grave is located far away from the necromancer’s house, which means that Samuel has to overcome an enormous distance in order to appear miraculously in En - dor . The second piece of background information about the persecution of the necromancers is important if we are to understand the she necromancer’s fear ( 9 : 12 ) , while at the same time it lays the groundwork for a condemnation of Saul’s perversity, who despite obeying the command to extirpate divina - tion, nevertheless has recourse to it himself when he feels military We shall come back to this evaluation later . inferiority and distress . 5 The narrator goes on to the Philistine dispositions against the Israelite camp, and immediately afterwards to Saul’s extreme terror at the sight ( vs . 4 – 5 ) . The geographical data of the battle are ver y Gideonsimilar to those of Gideon’s battle against the Midianites . 6 עין ( concentrated his army on the hill south of a spring called En Harod Jud 7 : 1 ) , bro...
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