1Samuel:13

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* Saul was as a son of one year when [he began ] to reign , and when he had reigned two years over Israel , * Saul chose three thousand [men ] of Israel , [of which ] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin ; and of the rest of the people he sent each one to his tent . * And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that [was ] in Geba , and the Philistines heard [of it ]. And Saul caused the shofar to be blown throughout all the land , saying , Let the Hebrews hear . * And all Israel heard it said [that ] Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines and also [that ] Israel had become a stench unto the Philistines . And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal . * Then the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel , thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and people as the sand which [is ] on the sea shore in multitude ; and they came up and pitched camp in Michmash , eastward from Bethaven . * When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed ), then the people hid themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits . * And [some of ] the Hebrews went over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead . As for Saul , he [was ] yet in Gilgal , and all the people followed him trembling . * And he tarried seven days , according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed ], but Samuel did not come to Gilgal , and the people were deserting from him . * Then Saul said , Bring me a burnt offering and peace offerings . And he offered the burnt offering . * And it came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering , behold , Samuel came ; and Saul went out to meet him that he might bless him . * Then Samuel said , What hast thou done ? And Saul said , Because I saw that the people were leaving me and [that ] thou didst not come within the days appointed and [that ] the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash , * therefore , I said , The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal , and I have not made supplication unto the LORD . I forced myself , therefore , and offered a burnt offering . * Then Samuel said to Saul , Thou hast done foolishly ; thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God , which he commanded thee , for now the LORD would have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever . * But now thy kingdom shall not stand ; the LORD has sought a man after his own heart unto whom the LORD has commanded that he be captain over his people because thou hast not kept [that ] which the LORD commanded thee . * And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin . And Saul numbered the people [that were ] present with him , about six hundred men . * And Saul and Jonathan , his son , and the people [that were ] present with them , abode in Gibeah of Benjamin , but the Philistines encamped in Michmash . * And three companies came out of the camp of the Philistines to destroy the land . One company turned unto the way [that leads to ] Ophrah unto the land of Shual . * Another company turned the way [to ] Bethhoron , and another company turned [to ] the way of the border that looks to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness . * Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel , for the Philistines had said , Lest peradventure the Hebrews make swords or spears . * But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock * and when they had nicks in the mattocks and the coulters and the forks and the axes , or to fix a goad . * So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were ] with Saul and Jonathan except with Saul and with Jonathan his son who had them . * And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash .:

---