13:1 Saul
was...
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned...
and
two
years
over
Israel.
13:2 Saul
chose
three
thousand
men
of
Israel.
Two
thousand
were
with
Saul
in
Michmash
and
the
hill
country
of
Bethel,
and
a
thousand
were
with
Jonathan
in
Gibeah
of
Benjamin.
The
rest
of
the
people
he
sent
home,
every
man
to
his
tent.
13:3 Jonathan
defeated
the
garrison
of
the
Philistines
that
was
at
Geba,
and
the
Philistines
heard
of
it.
And
Saul
blew
the
trumpet
throughout
all
the
land,
saying,
"Let
the
Hebrews
hear."
13:4 And
all
Israel
heard
it
said
that
Saul
had
defeated
the
garrison
of
the
Philistines,
and
also
that
Israel
had
become
a
stench
to
the
Philistines.
And
the
people
were
called
out
to
join
Saul
at
Gilgal.
13:5 And
the
Philistines
mustered
to
fight
with
Israel,
thirty
thousand
chariots
and
six
thousand
horsemen
and
troops
like
the
sand
on
the
seashore
in
multitude.
They
came
up
and
encamped
in
Michmash,
to
the
east
of
Beth-aven.
13:6 When
the
men
of
Israel
saw
that
they
were
in
trouble
(for
the
people
were
hard
pressed),
the
people
hid
themselves
in
caves
and
in
holes
and
in
rocks
and
in
tombs
and
in
cisterns,
13:7 and
some
Hebrews
crossed
the
fords
of
the
Jordan
to
the
land
of
Gad
and
Gilead.
Saul
was
still
at
Gilgal,
and
all
the
people
followed
him
trembling.
13:8 He
waited
seven
days,
the
time
appointed
by
Samuel.
But
Samuel
did
not
come
to
Gilgal,
and
the
people
were
scattering
from
him.
13:9 So
Saul
said,
"Bring
the
burnt
offering
here
to
me,
and
the
peace
offerings."
And
he
offered
the
burnt
offering.
13:10 As
soon
as
he
had
finished
offering
the
burnt
offering,
behold,
Samuel
came.
And
Saul
went
out
to
meet
him
and
greet
him.
13:11 Samuel
said,
"What
have
you
done"
And
Saul
said,
"When
I
saw
that
the
people
were
scattering
from
me,
and
that
you
did
not
come
within
the
days
appointed,
and
that
the
Philistines
had
mustered
at
Michmash,
13:12 I
said,
'Now
the
Philistines
will
come
down
against
me
at
Gilgal,
and
I
have
not
sought
the
favor
of
the
LORD.'
So
I
forced
myself,
and
offered
the
burnt
offering."
13:13 And
Samuel
said
to
Saul,
"You
have
done
foolishly.
You
have
not
kept
the
command
of
the
LORD
your
God,
with
which
he
commanded
you.
For
then
the
LORD
would
have
established
your
kingdom
over
Israel
forever.
13:14 But
now
your
kingdom
shall
not
continue.
The
LORD
has
sought
out
a
man
after
his
own
heart,
and
the
LORD
has
commanded
him
to
be
prince
over
his
people,
because
you
have
not
kept
what
the
LORD
commanded
you."
13:15 And
Samuel
arose
and
went
up
from
Gilgal.
The
rest
of
the
people
went
up
after
Saul
to
meet
the
army;
they
went
up
from
Gilgal
to
Gibeah
of
Benjamin.
And
Saul
numbered
the
people
who
were
present
with
him,
about
six
hundred
men.
13:16 And
Saul
and
Jonathan
his
son
and
the
people
who
were
present
with
them
stayed
in
Geba
of
Benjamin,
but
the
Philistines
encamped
in
Michmash.
13:17 And
raiders
came
out
of
the
camp
of
the
Philistines
in
three
companies.
One
company
turned
toward
Ophrah,
to
the
land
of
Shual;
13:18 another
company
turned
toward
Beth-horon;
and
another
company
turned
toward
the
border
that
looks
down
on
the
Valley
of
Zeboim
toward
the
wilderness.
13:19 Now
there
was
no
blacksmith
to
be
found
throughout
all
the
land
of
Israel,
for
the
Philistines
said,
"Lest
the
Hebrews
make
themselves
swords
or
spears."
13:20 But
every
one
of
the
Israelites
went
down
to
the
Philistines
to
sharpen
his
plowshare,
his
mattock,
his
axe,
or
his
sickle,
13:21 and
the
charge
was
two-thirds
of
a
shekel
for
the
plowshares
and
for
the
mattocks,
and
a
third
of
a
shekel
for
sharpening
the
axes
and
for
setting
the
goads.
13:22 So
on
the
day
of
the
battle
there
was
neither
sword
nor
spear
found
in
the
hand
of
any
of
the
people
with
Saul
and
Jonathan,
but
Saul
and
Jonathan
his
son
had
them.
13:23 And
the
garrison
of
the
Philistines
went
out
to
the
pass
of
Michmash.
