1 Samuel 13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Samuel 13Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice

1Saul was… years old when he began to reign, and he reigned…and two years over Israel.

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9 The rest of the people followed Saul to join the army; they went up from Gilgal toward Gibeah of Benjamin.Preparations for Battle

Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

16Saul, his son Jonathan, and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped at Michmash.

17 that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

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21The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

22Judg 5.8So on the day of the battle neither sword nor spear was to be found in the possession of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

Jonathan Surprises and Routs the Philistines

23Now a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass of Michmash.