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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_samuel/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Samuel Rebukes Saul</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Saul was thirty <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A few late manuscripts of the Septuagint; Hebrew does not have thirty.">a</a></sup></span> years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty- <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Acts 13:21); Masoretic Text does not have forty-.">b</a></sup></span> two years.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said, “Let the Hebrews hear!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel has become obnoxious to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew thirty thousand">c</a></sup></span> chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.</p><p class="reg">Saul remained at Gilgal, and all the troops with him were quaking with fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He waited seven days, the time set by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul’s men began to scatter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So he said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.” And Saul offered up the burnt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Just as he finished making the offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“What have you done?” asked Samuel.</p><p class="reg">Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s favor.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But now your kingdom will not endure; the <span class="name">Lord</span> has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s command.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Samuel left Gilgal <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew; Septuagint Gilgal and went his way; the rest of the people went after Saul to meet the army, and they went out of Gilgal">d</a></sup></span> and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin, and Saul counted the men who were with him. They numbered about six hundred.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Israel Without Weapons</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Saul and his son Jonathan and the men with them were staying in Gibeah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts Geba, a variant of Gibeah">e</a></sup></span> in Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Mikmash. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Raiding parties went out from the Philistine camp in three detachments. One turned toward Ophrah in the vicinity of Shual, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>another toward Beth Horon, and the third toward the borderland overlooking the Valley of Zeboyim facing the wilderness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew plow points">f</a></sup></span> sharpened. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The price was two-thirds of a shekel <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1/4 ounce or about 8 grams">g</a></sup></span> for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1/8 ounce or about 4 grams">h</a></sup></span> for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.</p> <p class="reg"><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 not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jonathan Attacks the Philistines</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Mikmash.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">A few late manuscripts of the Septuagint; Hebrew does not have <i>thirty.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Acts 13:21); Masoretic Text does not have <i>forty-</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew <i>thirty thousand</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew; Septuagint <i>Gilgal and went his way; the rest of the people went after Saul to meet the army, and they went out of Gilgal</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts <i>Geba,</i> a variant of <i>Gibeah</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">Septuagint; Hebrew <i>plow points</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1/4 ounce or about 8 grams</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1/8 ounce or about 4 grams</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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