1 Samuel 13
13:1Saul was a son a year in his taking reign, and two years he reigned in Israel.
13:2And Saul chose for himself three thousand men from the men of Israel. And there were with Saul two thousand in Michmash, and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the people he sent out, each man unto his tent.
13:3And Jonathan struck the Nasib of the Philistines, the one in the hill. And the Philistines heard, and Saul trumped the trumpet in all the land, saying, The servants disregard us.
13:4And all Israel heard, saying, Saul has smitten the Nasib of the Philistines; and Israel was put to shame by the Philistines. And the people ascended up after Saul in Gilgal.
13:5And the Philistines gather together for war against Israel. And they ascend upon Israel for war -- thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the edge of the sea in the multitude. And they ascend and camp in Michmash opposite according to the south of Beth-aven.
13:6And the man of Israel beheld that they were in a strait for them to not lead forward; and the people hid in the caves, and in the lairs, and in the rocks, and in the excavations, and in the pits.
13:7And the ones passing over, passed over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul still was in Gilgal, and all the people were receded after him.
13:8And he stopped seven days, according to the testimony as Samuel said. And Samuel did not come unto Gilgal, and his people scattered from him.
13:9And Saul said, Lead forward animals so that I should offer a whole burnt-offering, and peace offerings; and he offered the whole burnt-offering.
13:10And it came to pass as he completed offering the whole burnt-offering, that behold, Samuel arrived. And Saul came forth to meet him, to bless him.
13:11And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people scattered from me, and you did not come in the testimony of the days as you set in order, and the Philistines were gathered together in Michmash,
13:12and I said, Now the Philistines shall come down to me in Gilgal, and the face of the lord I beseeched not; and I took control myself and offered the whole burnt-offering.
13:13And Samuel said to Saul, It is folly to you that you kept not my commandment which the lord gave charge to you. As the lord prepared your kingdom over Israel unto the eon.
13:14And now your kingdom shall not stand with you. And the lord shall seek for himself a man according to his heart. And the lord shall give charge to him for ruler over his people, for you did not keep as many things as the lord gave charge to you.
13:15And Samuel rose up and went forth from out of Gilgal unto the hill of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people being found with him, about six hundred men.
13:16And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people being found with him, stayed in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the Philistines camped in Michmash.
13:17And men came forth to destroy out of the field of the Philistines in three companies. The one company looking upon the way of Ophrah, towards the land of Shual.
13:18And one company looking upon the way of Beth-horon. And one company looking upon the way of Gibeah, the one looking towards Gai, the Zeboim wilderness.
13:19And a fabricator of iron was not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Perhaps the Hebrews will make a broadsword and spear.
13:20And all Israel went down into the land of the Philistines, for each to forge his own reaping hook, and his utensil, and each his axe, and his sickle.
13:21And the gathering of crops was prepared to harvest. But for the items there was a charge of three shekels for the tooth, and to the axe, and to the sickle; the support camp was the same.
13:22And it came to pass in the days of the war, that there was not found broadsword and spear in the hand of all the people, of the one with Saul and Jonathan. But it was found with Saul and Jonathan his son.
13:23And the support camp of the Philistines went forth from the place on the other side of Michmash.