The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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[TD]1Sa 13:4[/TD]
[TD]And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.[/TD]
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1 Samuel 13:5 (NASB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
 
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1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits.
 
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1 Samuel 13:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] Now he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him.
 
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1 Samuel 13:10
New International Version (NIV)


Just as he finished making the offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him.
 
1 Samuel 13:11 (KJV)
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
 
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I Samuel 13:12 ESV
I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”
 
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1 Samuel 13:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
 
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1 Samuel 13:14 (KJV)
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
 
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1 Samuel 13:15 Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people present with him, about six hundred men
 
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1 Samuel 13:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] Now Saul and his son Jonathan and the people who were present with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash.
 
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1 Samuel 13:18
New International Version (NIV)


another toward Beth Horon, and the third toward the borderland overlooking the Valley of Zeboyim facing the wilderness.
 
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[TD]1Sa 13:21
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[TD]Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
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1 Samuel 13:22 (KJV)
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: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
 
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