1 Samuel 13 A son of a year is Saul in his reigning, yea, two years he has reigned over Israel,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A son of a year [is] Saul in his reigning, yea, two years he has reigned over Israel, ² and Saul chooses for himself three thousand [men] out of Israel; and two thousand are with Saul in Michmash, and in the hill-country of Beth-El; and a thousand have been with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and the remnant of the people he has sent each to his tents. ³ And Jonathan smites the garrison of the Philistines which [is] in Geba, and the Philistines hear, and Saul has blown with a trumpet through all the land, saying, `Let the Hebrews hear.. ⁴ And all Israel have heard, saying, `Saul has smitten the garrison of the Philistines,' and also, `Israel has been abhorred by the Philistines;' and the people are called after Saul to Gilgal. ⁵ And the Philistines have been gathered to fight with Israel; thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a people as the sand which [is] on the sea-shore for multitude; and they come up and encamp in Michmash, east of Beth-Aven. ⁶ And the men of Israel have seen that they are distressed, that the people has been oppressed, and the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. ⁷ And Hebrews have passed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; and Saul [is] yet in Gilgal, and all the people have trembled after him. ⁸ And he waits seven days, according to the appointment with Samuel, and Samuel has not come to Gilgal, and the people are scattered from off him. ⁹ And Saul said, `Bring nigh unto me the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings;' and he causes the burnt-offering to ascend. ¹⁰ And it comes to pass at his completing to cause the burnt-offering to ascend, that lo, Samuel has come, and Saul goes out to meet him, to bless him;" ¹¹ and Samuel said, `What have you done?' And Saul said, `Because I saw that the people were scattered from off me, and you hadst not come at the appointment of the days, and the Philistines are gathered to Michmash, ¹² and I say, Now do the Philistines come down unto me to Gilgal, and the face of Yahweh I have not appeased; and I force myself, and cause the burnt-offering to ascend.. ¹³ And Samuel said unto Saul, `You have been foolish; you have not kept the command of Yahweh your Elohim, which He commanded you, for now had Yahweh established your kingdom over Israel unto the eon;" ¹⁴ and, now, your kingdom does not stand, Yahweh has sought for Himself a man according to His own heart, and Yahweh charges him for leader over His people, for you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.. ¹⁵ And Samuel rises, and goes up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin; and Saul inspects the people who are found with him, about six hundred men, ¹⁶ and Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who are found with them, are abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin, and the Philistines have encamped in Michmash. ¹⁷ And the destroyer goes out from the camp of the Philistines--three detachments; the one detachment turns unto the way of Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;" ¹⁸ and the one detachment turns the way of Beth-Horon, and the one detachment turns the way of the border which is looking on the valley of the Zeboim, toward the wilderness. ¹⁹ And an artificer is not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, `Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear;. ²⁰ and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;" ²¹ and there has been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads. ²² And it has been, in the day of battle, that there has not been found sword and spear in the hand of any of the people who [are] with Saul and with Jonathan--and there is found to Saul and to Jonathan his son. ²³ And the station of the Philistines goes out unto the passage of Michmash.