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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Samuel 13 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Samuel 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/12.htm" title="1 Samuel 12">◄</a> 1 Samuel 13 <a href="../1_samuel/14.htm" title="1 Samuel 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_samuel/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Saul Fights the Philistines</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Saul lived for one year and then became king, and when he had reigned for two years over Israel,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Saul was one year old when he became king, and he reigned two years over Israel; some Greek manuscripts give Saul's age when he began to reign as thirty years">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="heading">Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, with which he commanded you. For then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But now your kingdom shall not continue. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sought out a man after his own heart, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded him to be prince<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or leader">b</a></sup></span> over his people, because you have not kept what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew lacks The rest of the people... from Gilgal">c</a></sup></span> to Gibeah of Benjamin.</p><p class="regular">And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew plowshare">d</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew was a pim">e</a></sup></span> for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">f</a></sup></span> for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain">g</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Hebrew <i>Saul was one year old when he became king, and he reigned two years over Israel</i>; some Greek manuscripts give Saul's age when he began to reign as thirty years<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>leader</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Septuagint; Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">The rest of the people... from Gilgal</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Septuagint; Hebrew <i>plowshare</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">was</span> a pim</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> A <i class="catch-word">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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