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     * back.  Heb. shoulder.  gave.  Heb. turned.  another heart.
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     * and all those signs.
       The following history of Saul is given by the Afghans, a
       people generally supposed to be of Jewish origin:  "In a war
       which raged between the children of Israel and the Amalekites,
       the latter being victorious, plundered the Jews, and obtained
       possession of the ark of the covenant.  Considering this [as]
       the God of the Jews, they threw it into the fire, which did
       not affect it.  They afterwards attempted to cleave it with
       axes, but without success:  every individual who treated it
       with indignity, was punished for his temerity.  They then
       placed it in their temple; but all their idols bowed to it.
       At length they fastened it upon a cow, which they turned loose
       in the wilderness.  When the prophet Samuel arose, the
       children of Israel said to him, 'We have been totally subdued
       by the Amalekites, and have no king.  Raise to us a king, that
       we may be enabled to contend for the glory of God.'  Samuel
       said, 'In case you are led out to battle, are you determined
       to fight?'  They answered, 'What has befallen us, that we
       should not fight against infidels?  That nation has banished
       us from our country and children.'  At this time the angel
       Gabriel descended, and delivering a wand, said, 'It is the
       command of God, that the person whose stature shall correspond
       with this wand, shall be king of Israel.'  Melec T(a06c)ㄅ was at
       that time a man of inferior condition, and performed the
       humble employment of feeding the goats and cows of others.
       One day, a cow under his charge was accidentally lost.  Being
       disappointed in his searches, he was greatly distressed, and
       applied to Samuel saying, 'I have lost a cow, and I do not
       possess the means of satisfying the owner.  Pray for me that I
       may be extricated from this difficulty.'  Samuel perceiving
       that he was a man of lofty stature, asked his name.  He
       answered, T(a06c)ㄅ.  Samuel then said, 'Measure T(a06c)ㄅ with the
       wand which the angel Gabriel brought.'  His stature was equal
       to it.  Samuel then said, 'God has raised T(a06c)ㄅ to be your
       king.'  The children of Israel answered, 'We are greater than
       our king.  We are men of dignity, and he is of inferior
       condition.  How shall he be our king?'  Samuel informed them,
       they should know that God had constituted T(a06c)ㄅ king, by his
       restoring the ark of the covenant.  He accordingly restored
       it, and they acknowledged him their sovereign."  Asiatic
       Researches, vol. ii. p. 119, et seq.

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