3.2.2.2. The Exposition to the Apparition Episode and its Implied Comparisons

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...  אל הספר
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