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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/13-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">War with the Philistines<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand who were in Machmas, and in mount Baethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and he sent the rest of the people every man to his tent. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Jonathan smote Nasib the Philistine that dwelt in the hill; and the Philistines hear of it, and Saul sounds the trumpet through all the land, saying, The servants have despised <i>us</i>. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And all Israel heard say, Saul has smitten Nasib the Philistine; now Israel had been put to shame before the Philistines; and the children of Israel went up after Saul in Galgala.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Philistines gather together to war with Israel; and then come up against Israel thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore for multitude: and they come up, and encamp in Machmas, opposite Baethoron southward. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw nigh, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And they that went over went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Galaad: and Saul was yet in Galgala, and all the people followed after him in amazement.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he continued seven days for the appointed testimony, as Samuel told him, and Samuel came not to Galgala, and his people were dispersed from him. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Saul said, Bring hither <i>victims</i>, that I may offer whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and he offered the whole-burnt-offering.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And it came to pass when he had finished offering the whole-burnt-offering, that Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to meet him, <i>and</i> to bless him. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Samuel said, What hast thou done? and Saul said, Because I saw how the people were scattered from me, and thou was not present as thou purposedst according to the set time of the days, and the Philistines were gathered to Machmas. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then I said, Now will the Philistines come down to me to Galgala, and I have not sought the face of the Lord: so I forced myself and offered the whole-burnt-offering. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly; for thou hast not kept my command, which the Lord commanded thee, as now the Lord would have confirmed thy kingdom over Israel for ever. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But now thy kingdom shall not stand to thee, and the Lord shall seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord shall appoint him to be a ruler over his people, because thou hast not kept all that the Lord commanded thee.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Samuel arose, and departed from Galgala, and the remnant of the people went after Saul to meet <i>him</i> after the men of war, when they had come out of Galgala to Gabaa of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about six hundred men.<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Israel without Weapons<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people that were found with them, halted in Gabaa, of Benjamin; and they wept: and the Philistines had encamped in Machmas. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And men came forth to destroy out of the land of the Philistines in three companies; one company turning by the way of Gophera toward the land of Sogal, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and another company turning the way of Baethoron, and another company turning by the way of Gabae that turns aside to Gai of Sabim.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And all Israel went down to the Land of the Philistines to forge every one his reaping-hook and his tool, and every one his axe and his sickle. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it was near the time of vintage: and their tools were <i>valued at</i> three shekels for a plough-share, and there was the same rate for the axe and the sickle. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And it came to pass in the days of the war of Machmas, that there was not a sword or spear found in the hand of all the people, that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and Jonathan his son was there found. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And there went out some from the camp of the Philistines to the place beyond Machmas.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>