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+ | <li><b>Insignificant Family</b> – After being appointed as a leader by Hashem's representative, both Gidon and Shaul refuse to accept the appointment, due to their family being the smallest and youngest of their tribe's families.</li> | ||
+ | <li><b>Three Miracles</b> – Before Gidon commits to battle, he is given three different signs. When Shaul leaves Shemuel, he is told as a sign of three meetings he will have.</li> | ||
+ | <li><b>Battle Preparations and Tactics</b> – Both Shaul and Gidon send out messengers to collect soldiers to fight. They then split their army into three sections, and hit the enemy camp in a coordinated attack at a specific hour.</li> | ||
+ | <li><b>Post-Battle Conflict</b> – Following the battle, the men of Efraim complain to Gidon, but he manages to pacify them without any deaths. Following Shaul's battle, their is an attempt to kill anyone opposed to Shaul, but Shaul also avoids killing.</li> | ||
+ | <li><b>Kingship Offer</b> – As a result of the victory, an offer is made to both Gidon and Shaul to make them a king over Israel.</li> | ||
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+ | <li>The Prophet's Speech - Before Gidon's appointment, an unnamed prophet speaks to the Israelites, mentioning how Hashem took them out of Egypt and saved them from their enemies. Before Shaul's crowning, Shemuel speaks to the nation using almost identical language.</li> | ||
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Version as of 13:55, 29 October 2016
Gidon and Shaul
Introduction
Content Parallels
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Literary Allusions
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Analysis
- Degree of similarity –
- Distinctive phrases –
- Avimelekh and Shaul – The term "bad spirit" ("רוּחַ רָעָה"), the phrase "standing" ("וַיַּעֲמֹד") on "top of a mountain" ("בְּרֹאשׁ הַר" / "עַל רֹאשׁ הָהָר"), and the request "שְׁלֹף חַרְבְּךָ" appear only in these stories. The term arms-bearer ("נֹשֵׂא כֵלָיו") and the verb stab (דקר) are also found only rarely in Tanakh.1