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Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.</p> <p class="hdg">Saul's Unlawful Sacrifice</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Saul said, "Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings." He offered the burnt offering.</p> <p class="hdg">Samuel Rebukes Saul</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh.' I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.</p> <p class="hdg">Philistines Raid Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.</p> <p class="hdg">Israel without Weapons</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears;" <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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