Chapter 32: The First King of Israel
Jephthah was already very old when he was chosen as a great judge, and Moses chose him as a great judge, in fact, because he took a fancy to this, so that he could choose a more suitable candidate in the future.
But Jephthah also made a contribution during his years as a great judge, repelling the attacks of the Ammonites and becoming a hero in the annals of Israel's history.
The Ammonites, like the Moabites, were descendants of Lot, Abraham's nephew. Their fathers, Moab and Ammon, were the daughters of Lot, and the sons who lay with Lot one after the other. Because of the incest of their parents, the offspring born were not good at all, and their offspring were also fornicating and wicked, so the Israelites did not have a good relationship with them. 、
They lived on the east side of the Jordan River, which connected the city of Rabah to the north and south of the Jordan River, and they fought against the Canaanites on the Jordan River many times, but they never took the land west of the Jordan. During Israel's conquest of Canaan from the wilderness, the Ammonites refused to allow the Israelites to take their land, and together with the Moabites, hired Balaam to curse them.
And now, they don't know where they got the oracle, and they are beginning to attack the Israelites who have settled in the land of Canaan. Their attack failed, and the Israelites repelled them.
But Jephthah, the great judge of Israel, also paid the price for this, because of his mistake, his daughter had to remain celibate for the rest of her life and not be close to any man.
As a punishment for his foolishness, Jephthah resigned from his position as a great priest and placed it in the hands of Samson, who possessed divine powers.
Before Samson was born, his mother vowed to Jehovah's angel to raise the child like the Nazirites who had converted to Yahweh. He shall not drink alcohol, nor eat anything unclean, nor shave his head. As long as he keeps these commandments, Yahweh's blessings will stay with him forever.
The young and powerful Samson became a great scholar, but he faced an attack from the remnants of Great Xia. These remnants of Bactria were guided by Adros to begin their campaign against the Israelites.
Before the remnants of Bactria arrived, there were sporadic Phrygians from the sea, but they were repelled by the Israelites led by Samson.
But these remnants of Bactria were not so easy to deal with, and they pressed on the Israelites step by step, overwhelming them breathlessly. Eventually, they even pressed the border with a large army to force the Israelites to tie up Samson and send him to where they were.
In order to avoid the fate of being slaughtered, the Israelites had to hand over Samson, who did what he wanted, and simply followed the will of the Bactrian people and let them tie themselves up.
To the surprise of the Israelis, this mysterious group of Bactria from the sea, after kidnapping Samson, showed off their might in the territory of the Israelites, and then went straight away.
They came and went away suddenly, except for Samson, the great priest, and it seemed that they had taken nothing with them, but they had left nothing behind.
No, they left something behind, a great shame for the Israelites. The Israelites were enslaved, slaughtered, and framed, but they were never ignored in this way.
Such a scene filled all the Israelites with grief and shame, including Samuel, Israel's new great judge, and Moses, the first god of Israel.
Moses, in a fit of righteous indignation, once killed the people of Bactria alone, but in that place, he ran into his old friend Sisyphus.
The man who had blessed him in his early years as he fled from Egypt to the land of Midian, was the first to show him that human beings could become gods.
Even when he was in the land of Midian, he often debated with Sisyphus, and many times he could not argue with Sisyphus, and angels often came to teach him at night, so that he would not fall behind in his tongue.
Even his eldest son, Ge Xuan, who was also in contact with him, was a disciple of Sisyphus. It was Sisyphus's teaching of his eldest son that made Ge Xuan, like his mother, lose his belief and worship of the gods and become a heresy of superstitious powers.
"Why, Moses, are you going to come to me again to debate? I can tell you, I don't want to debate with you anymore, you can decide whether you win or lose. ”
Sisyphus also had no choice, so many gods, they didn't want to make a move, and the Moses in front of him was assigned to him by Athena to deal with it.
"Sisyphus, I am not arguing with you, but the people from the sea whom you have sheltered have taken captive to the princes of our Israelites. I'm here to bring him back. ”
Hearing Moses' words, Sisyphus shook his head: "Impossible, this is the decision of Lord Yahweh and His Excellency the Lord of the Stars, the Israelites deserve to be humiliated, and the leader is to ward off the plague for all Israelites." ”
"The Israelites have been humiliated, so why don't you release their leaders?"
For Moses, it would have been a great shame for these remnants of Bactria to come and go away in the land of the Israelites. Now he even says that Samson is protecting all the Israelites from disaster.
"It's not up to you to decide whether you will be humiliated or not, it's up to us to decide. We felt the need to capture the Israelite leaders, and we took them, and wanted us to retreat, but we couldn't do it for the time being. ”
Seeing that Sisyphus had such a tough attitude, Moses had no choice but to choose the path he least wanted to choose, and did it. It turns out that it makes sense for him to put this path last, and he is no match for Sisyphus at all.
If it weren't for Sisyphus, who cared about the slight friendship he had in the past, and didn't deal heavily with him, Moses might not have been able to leave the place where the remnants of Great Xia were safe.
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As for the new Israeli master Samuel, when he took office, he began to restore production, which had come to a close standstill because of the previous years of war, and made the Israelites rich again.
The Israelites did not have much talent for farming, but they were very good at trade. At this time, Samuel sent people to visit Pharaoh in Egypt and re-establish contact with Egypt, so that the caravans of the Israelites could appear on the land of Egypt.
Then he thought of ordering the merchants of Israel to go to all the warring parts of Babylon to sell goods and earn some money from the war. But his approach was very risky, because the people they had defeated were still watching over them from outside the land where Israel was.
No one knows when these tribes will launch a new attack against them and plunder their belongings.
To prevent this, Samuel's reign in Israel increased the ties between the twelve tribes and trained the combined armies of the twelve tribes to make the Israelites one.
Of course, what was even more important was that he continued to teach the Israelites to worship Yahweh, because Yahweh was the only God of the Israelites and the God of their ancestors. No other god could have been as powerful as Yahweh and was protecting Israel at all times.
What Samuel did had laid the foundation for the Israelites to build a unified kingdom, and what they lacked was a king.
A true king, a king who can lead the Israelites to the pinnacle of the race and compete with other nations for the right to speak.
As the Israelites pleaded with Samuel to choose a king for them, Samuel listened to Yahweh's intentions and anointed Saul, a descendant of the tribe of Benjamin, as king among the tribal candidates.
Saul was a man of good shape and tall, but he was humble in his heart, and when he heard that Samuel was going to make himself king, he quickly refused. When he returned home, his uncle asked him what Samuel had said to him, but he never mentioned that he had been anointed king, and went home to continue his work as a plough and herd cattle.
By this time, Samuel had summoned the Israelites to Mizpah and formally appointed Saul as their head before the crowd. When everything was ready, the people searched for Saul, but he hid in his utensils, not anxious to gain the riches of this superior man.
Therefore, when he was officially elected queen, even though some people were not convinced and openly challenged him, he did not mind or pay any attention to it. At that time, the central government of Israel had not yet been formed, and he did not need much power and status. So he returned to his hometown, continued to plow the fields and drive cattle, and lived an ordinary life, with a particularly approachable personality and humble and decent.
At this time, the Ammonites invaded the border, and the oppressed people in the north thought to themselves, "Now that Israel has made Saul king, let us rise up and ask the king to help them."
When Saul heard the people crying, he showed his sense of responsibility and organizational skills, and he mobilized 330,000 soldiers to defeat the Ammonites and become a hero to Israel.
After the victory, some people settled accounts and suggested that those who had previously believed that Saul was not qualified to be a leader should be sentenced to death. But Saul was so broad-minded that he opposed it. After this, the people of the country realized that a large central organization should be established, and they formally adopted Saul as king, and the kingdom of Israel was established.
At the time of Israel's founding, Andros was no longer in the Garden of Eden in Yahweh, and even Athena had already returned to Kaos with the Bactrian and joined the remnants of Troy.
These were all things that Adros expected, and he didn't pay much attention to them. At this time, he came to the area ruled by the Babylonian god as a guest.
It was not Assyria, but Babylon, the kingdom that was given by Marduk to the triad of stars and the goddess Hades. Adros didn't know what the Lords had asked him for, but he did.
In any case, these lords of Babylon, because of the relationship between the Venus god Estad, still have some possible cooperation positions with him.