complete verse (1 Samuel 13:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 1 Samuel 13:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “One day, he chose three thousand men of war (soldiers), after that, he told all the remaining people (warriors) to return home. He divided those soldiers into two, one (group) of two thousand and another of one thousand. Saul with the two thousand soldiers were staying in Michmash on a hill near Bethel. But his big/elder son called Jonathan led the other one thousand. They went and stayed in Gibeah in the country allotted to the clan of Benjamin.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Saul selected 3,000 men and kept 2,000 of them with him in Micmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and he sent 1,000 with his son Jonathan into the area of the tribe of Benjamin. Then, as for the remaining men, he [them] sent back home.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Saul chose 3,000 men from Israel to-fight-against the Filistinhon. The ones (who) were- not -chosen he sent-home. He accompanied the 2,000 to Micmash and to the hills/mountains of Betel, and the 1,000 he had-accompany his child/(son) Jonatan to Gibea which was-part of Benjamin.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Several years after he became king, he chose three thousand men from the Israeli army to go with him to fight the Philistines. Then he sent the other soldiers back home. Of the men he chose, 2,000 stayed with Saul at Micmash and in the hilly area near Bethel, and 1,000 stayed with Saul’s son Jonathan at Gibeah, in the area where the descendants of Benjamin lived.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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