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1 എന്നാല്‍ ഫെലിസ്ത്യര്‍ യിസ്രായേലിനോടു യുദ്ധംചെയ്തു; യിസ്രായേല്യര്‍ ഫെലിസ്ത്യരുടെ മുമ്പില്‍നിന്നു ഔടി ഗില്‍ബോവപര്‍വ്വതത്തില്‍ നിഹതന്മാരായി വീണു.

2 ഫെലിസ്ത്യര്‍ ശൌലിനെയും അവന്റെ പുത്രന്മാരെയും പിന്തേര്‍ന്നുചെന്നു; ഫെലിസ്ത്യര്‍ ശൌലിന്റെ പുത്രന്മാരായ യോനാഥാന്‍ അബീനാദാബ് മെല്‍ക്കീശൂവ എന്നിവരെ കൊന്നു.

3 എന്നാല്‍ പട ശൌലിന്റെ നേരെ ഏറ്റവും, മുറുകി; വില്ലാളികള്‍ അവനില്‍ ദൃഷ്ടിവെച്ചു, വില്ലാളികളാല്‍ അവന്‍ ഏറ്റവും വിഷമത്തിലായി.

4 ശൌല്‍ തന്റെ ആയുധവാഹകനോടുഈ അഗ്രചര്‍മ്മികള്‍ വന്നു എന്നെ കുത്തിക്കളകയും അപമാനിക്കയും ചെയ്യാതിരിക്കേണ്ടതിന്നു നിന്റെ വാള്‍ ഊരി എന്നെ കുത്തുക എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു. ആയുധവാഹകന്‍ ഏറ്റവും ഭയപ്പെട്ടതുകൊണ്ടു അവന്നു മനസ്സുവന്നില്ല; അതുകൊണ്ടു ശൌല്‍ ഒരു വാള്‍ പിടിച്ചു അതിന്മേല്‍ വീണു.

5 ശൌല്‍ മരിച്ചു എന്നു അവന്റെ ആയുധവാഹകന്‍ കണ്ടപ്പോള്‍ താനും അങ്ങനെ തന്നേ തന്റെ വാളിന്മേല്‍ വീണു അവനോടുകൂടെ മരിച്ചു.

6 ഇങ്ങനെ ശൌലും അവന്റെ മൂന്നു പുത്രന്മാരും അവന്റെ ആയുധവാഹകനും അവന്റെ ആളുകള്‍ ഒക്കെയും അന്നു ഒന്നിച്ചു മരിച്ചു. യിസ്രായേല്യര്‍ ഔടിപ്പോയി.

7 ശൌലും പുത്രന്മാരും മരിച്ചു എന്നു താഴ്വരയുടെ അപ്പുറത്തും യോര്‍ദ്ദാന്നക്കരെയും ഉള്ള യിസ്രായേല്യര്‍ കണ്ടപ്പോള്‍ അവര്‍ പട്ടണങ്ങളെ വെടിഞ്ഞു ഔടിപ്പോകയും ഫെലിസ്ത്യര്‍വന്നു അവിടെ പാര്‍ക്കയും ചെയ്തു.

8 പിറ്റെന്നാള്‍ ഫെലിസ്ത്യര്‍ നിഹതന്മാരുടെ വസ്ത്രം ഉരിവാന്‍ വന്നപ്പോള്‍ ശൌലും പുത്രന്മാരും ഗില്‍ബോവപര്‍വ്വതത്തില്‍ വീണു കിടക്കുന്നതു കണ്ടു.

9 അവര്‍ അവന്റെ തലവെട്ടി, അവന്റെ ആയുധവര്‍ഗ്ഗവും അഴിച്ചെടുത്തു തങ്ങളുടെ വിഗ്രഹക്ഷേത്രങ്ങളിലും ജനത്തിന്റെ ഇടയിലും വര്‍ത്തമാനം അറിയിക്കേണ്ടതിന്നു ഫെലിസ്ത്യദേശത്തെല്ലാടവും ആളയച്ചു.

10 അവന്റെ ആയുധവര്‍ഗ്ഗം അവര്‍ അസ്തോരെത്തിന്റെ ക്ഷേത്രത്തില്‍വെച്ചു; അവന്റെ ഉടല്‍ അവര്‍ ബേത്ത്-ശാന്റെ ചുവരിന്മേല്‍ തൂക്കി.

11 എന്നാല്‍ ഫെലിസ്ത്യര്‍ ശൌലിനോടു ചെയ്തതു ഗിലെയാദിലെ യാബേശ് നിവാസികള്‍ കേട്ടപ്പോള്‍

12 ശൂരന്മാരായ എല്ലാവരും പുറപ്പെട്ടു രാത്രിമുഴുവനും നടന്നുചെന്നു ബേത്ത്-ശാന്റെ ചുവരില്‍നിന്നു ശൌലിന്റെ ശവവും അവന്റെ പുത്രന്മാരുടെ ശവങ്ങളും എടുത്തു യാബേശില്‍ കൊണ്ടുവന്നു അവിടെവെച്ചു ദഹിപ്പിച്ചു.

13 അവരുടെ അസ്ഥികളെ അവര്‍ എടുത്തു യാബേശിലെ പിചുലവൃക്ഷത്തിന്റെ ചുവട്ടില്‍ കുഴിച്ചിട്ടു; ഏഴു ദിവസം ഉപവസിച്ചു.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1197

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1197. 'From whom Pelishtim came forth' means the nation which came from these, and which means a knowledge of the cognitions of faith and charity. This is clear from the Word where they are mentioned many times. In the Ancient Church all were called Philistines who spoke much about faith and who asserted that salvation lay in faith, and yet possessed nothing of the life of faith. Consequently they more than any others were called uncircumcised, that is, devoid of charity. (For references to them as the uncircumcised, see 1 Samuel 14:6; 17:26, 36; 31:4; 2 Samuel 1:20; and elsewhere.) Being such as they were they inevitably made cognitions of faith matters of memory, for cognitions of spiritual and celestial things, and the arcana of faith themselves, become purely matters of memory when a person who is acquainted with them is devoid of charity. Things of the memory are so to speak dead if the person is not such that he lives according to them from conscience. When he does live according to them from conscience things of the memory are in that case matters of life as well, and only then do they remain with him for his use and salvation following life in the body. Knowledge and cognitions are of no value to anyone in the next life, even though he may have known all the arcana that have ever been revealed, if they have made no impact on his life.

[2] Throughout the prophetical parts of the Word 'the Philistines' means people such as these, as they do in the historical sections of the Word, as when Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines and made a covenant with Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, Genesis 20:1-end; 21:22-end; 26:1-33. Because the Philistines here meant cognitions of faith, and because Abraham represented the celestial things of faith, he sojourned there and made a covenant with them. So likewise did Isaac, who represented the spiritual things of faith. But Jacob did not do so because he represented the external features of the Church.

[3] That 'the Philistines' means, in general, knowledge of the cognitions of faith, and in particular people who make faith and salvation reside in cognitions alone which they make matters of memory, becomes clear also in Isaiah,

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smites you has been broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying prester. Isaiah 14:29

Here 'the serpent's root' stands for facts, 'an adder' for evil arising out of falsities based on facts. 'The fruits of a flying prester' is their works which, because they are the product of evil desires, are called 'a flying prester'

[4] In Joel,

What are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the borders of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? Swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head, inasmuch as you have taken My silver and My gold, and My good and desirable treasures you have carried into your temples, and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Javanites, 1 that you might remove them far away from their border. Joel 3:4-6.

What 'the Philistines' and the whole of Philistia, or 'all its borders', are used to mean here is plain. 'Silver' and 'gold' here are the spiritual and celestial things of faith, 'good and desirable treasures' cognitions of them. 'They carried them into their temples' means that they were in possession of them and proclaimed them. 'They sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem' however means that they possessed no love and no faith. In the Word 'Judah' is the celestial element of faith, and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual element deriving from it, which were 'removed far away from their borders'. Further examples exist in the Prophets, such as Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1-end; Ezekiel 16:27, 57; 25:15-16; Amos 1:8; 19; Zephaniah 2:5; Psalms 87:4; and the people of Caphtor are mentioned in Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4; Amos 9:7.

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Genesis 10

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1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.