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          DASV: 1 Samuel 13    

1 Saul was [thirty] years old when he began to reign and he
reigned [forty]-two years over Israel.
2 Saul chose 3,000 men of Israel. 2,000 of these were with
Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and the
other thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin.
The rest of the people he sent back to their homes.
3 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines at Geba,
and the Philistines heard about it. Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews listen."
4 All Israel heard the news that Saul had defeated the
garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had
become a stench to the Philistines. The troops mustered
to Saul at Gilgal.

5 The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, 30,000 chariots,
and 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand of
the seashore. They came up and camped at Michmash,
east of Beth-aven.
6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a difficult
situation (for their troops were hard pressed), they hid
in caves, thickets, rocks, holes and pits.
7 Some of the Hebrews fled across the Jordan River to the
land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal, and all
the troops who followed him were trembling with fear.
8 He waited seven days, the set time that Samuel had indicated,
but Samuel had still not come down to Gilgal; and the
people were scattering from Saul.
9 So Saul ordered, "Bring me the burnt offering and peace
offerings." Then he offered the burnt offering.

10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering,
Samuel arrived and Saul went out to meet him, so that he
might greet him.
11 Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul replied, "When I
saw that the people were scattering from me, and you hadn't
come at the appointed time, and the Philistines had
assembled at Michmash,
12 I thought, 'The Philistines will come down to attack
me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.'
So I felt forced to offer the burnt offering."
13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly. You have
not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, that he gave you.
If you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom
over Israel forever.
14 But now your kingdom will not last. The LORD has sought
out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has appointed
him to be the leader over his people, because you have
not kept what the LORD commanded you."
15 Samuel got up and left Gilgal for Gibeah in the tribal
territory of Benjamin. Saul mustered the people who
remained with him; there were only 600 men left.
16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the troops who remained with
them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines
camped at Michmash.
17 The raiding parties went out of the camp of the Philistines
in three groups. One group turned to the way that leads
toward Ophrah, in the region of Shual,
18 another group turned toward the road going up to
Beth-horon, and another group turned toward the road
to the border that overlooks the valley of Zeboim near
the wilderness.
19 Now there was no blacksmith found anywhere in all the
land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "This will stop
the Hebrews from making swords or spears."
20 So all the Israelites used to go down to the Philistines
to have their plowshares, mattocks, axes and sickles
sharpened.
21 They charged two-thirds of a shekel for sharpening
plowshares and mattocks, and one-third shekel for axes
and for sharpening ox goads.
22 So on the day of the battle, there was neither sword or
spear to be found in the hand of any of the troops that
were with Saul and Jonathan, only Saul and Jonathan his
son had them.
23 A garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass
at Michmash.

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