# Saul, King of Israel

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/king-saul (Enoch Archive).

Saul, the son of Kish, was the first king of Israel. The Cave of Treasures says the children of Israel made him king in the days of Samuel and that he reigned forty years. In his days Goliath reviled Israel and was killed by David, whom Saul then persecuted. The Philistines slew Saul, the book says, because he forsook the Lord and took refuge with the devils.

The Kebra Nagast recalls that Samuel the prophet anointed Saul, who was of the tribe of Benjamin, that Samuel rebuked him without fear and rent his kingdom from him by his word, and that Saul died fighting the Philistines together with Jonathan his son.

He is a different person from Saul of Rehoboth, the king of Edom.

**books:** The Cave of Treasures; The Kebra Nagast