1 Samuel 13 Saul offers sacrifices and Samuel reproves him

 1 Samuel 13

Saul offers sacrifices and Samuel reproves him

8 And he waited seven days, until the time that Samuel had determined; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, the people spread out from him.

9 Then Saul said, Bring me a burnt offering and peace offerings. And he offered the holocaust.

10 And it came to pass, when he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, to greet him.

11 Then Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were spreading out from me, and you were not coming in the appointed days, and the Philistines had already gathered together at Micmash,

12 I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and yet in the face of the Lord I did not pray: and I was violent, and offered a burnt offering.

13 Then Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly, and you have not kept the commandment that the Lord your God has commanded you; for now the Lord would have confirmed your kingdom over Israel forever.

14 But now your kingdom will not endure: the Lord has sought a man for himself after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be a leader over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord has commanded you.

15 Then Samuel got up and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul told the people that he found six hundred men with him.

16 And Saul and Jonathan, his son, and the people who were with them, stayed in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines camped at Micmash.

17 And the destroyers left the Philistine camp in three companies: one of the companies returned by the way from Ophrah to the land of Saul:

18 Another company came back along the path of Betorom: and the other company came back along the path of the term that looks at the Zeboim valley tells of the desert.

19 And not a smith was found in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines had said, Lest the Hebrews make a sword or a spear.

20 So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines to sharpen their share, and their hoe, and their ax, and their hoe.

21 But they had files attached to their hoes, and to their hoes, and to the three-pronged forks, and to the axes, and to repair the goads.

22 And it came to pass on the day of the battle that neither a sword nor a spear was found in the hand of all the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but they met Saul and Jonathan his son.

23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to Micmas.