1 Samuel 13:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice
13 Saul was . . .[a] years old when he began to reign; and he reigned . . . and two[b][c] years over Israel.
2 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib′e-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent. 3 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines which was at Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”
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- 1 Samuel 13:1 The number is lacking in Heb
- 1 Samuel 13:1 Two is not the entire number. Something has dropped out.
- 13.1 Acts 13.21 says Saul reigned forty years; but so did David (2 Sam 5.5). These must be round numbers, to indicate a fairly long rule.
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