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First Book of Samuel, Chapter 13

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1 Samuel 13 NWT - New World Translation1 Samuel 13 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 13 of 1 Samuel—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Saul was [?][a] years old when he began to reign,1 and for two years he reigned over Israel.
  2. And Saul proceeded to choose for himself three thousand men out of Israel; and two thousand came to be with Saul at Michʹmash2 and in the mountainous region of Bethʹel, and a thousand proved to be with Jonʹa·than3 at Gibʹe·ah4 of Benjamin, and the rest of the people he sent away, each one to his tent.[b]
  3. Then Jonʹa·than struck down the garrison5 of the Phi·lisʹtines6 that was in Geʹba;[c]7 and the Phi·lisʹtines got to hear of it. As for Saul, he had the horn blown8 throughout all the land, saying: “Let the Hebrews hear!”
  4. And all Israel itself heard tell: “Saul has struck down a garrison of the Phi·lisʹtines, and now Israel has become foul-smelling9 among the Phi·lisʹtines.” So the people were called together to follow Saul to Gilʹgal.10
  5. ¶ And the Phi·lisʹtines, for their part, collected themselves together to fight against Israel, thirty[d] thousand war chariots11 and six thousand horsemen and people like the grains of sand that are upon the seashore for multitude;12 and they went their way up and began camping in Michʹmash to the east of Beth-aʹven.13
  6. And the men of Israel themselves saw that they were in sore straits,14 because the people were hard pressed; and the people went hiding themselves in the caves15 and the hollows and the crags and the vaults[e] and the waterpits.
  7. Hebrews even crossed the Jordan16 to the land of Gad17 and Gilʹe·ad. But Saul himself was yet in Gilʹgal, and all the people trembled while following him.18
  8. And he continued waiting for seven days to the appointed time that Samuel [had said];[f]19 and Samuel did not come to Gilʹgal, and the people were scattering from him.
  9. Finally Saul said: “BRING near to me the burnt sacrifice and the communion sacrifices.” With that he went offering up the burnt sacrifice.20
  10. ¶ And it came about that as soon as he had finished offering up the burnt sacrifice, why, there was Samuel coming in. So Saul went out to meet him and bless him.21
  11. Then Samuel said: “What is it you have done?”22 To this Saul said: “I saw that the people had been dispersed from me,23 and you—you did not come within the appointed days,24 and the Phi·lisʹtines were being collected together at Michʹmash,25
  12. so I said to myself,[g]26 ‘Now the Phi·lisʹtines will come down against me at Gilʹgal, and the face of Jehovah I have not softened.’ So I compelled myself27 and went offering up the burnt sacrifice.”
  13. ¶ At this Samuel said to Saul: “You have acted foolishly.28 You have not kept the commandment29 of Jehovah your God that he commanded you,30 because, if you had, Jehovah would have made your kingdom firm over Israel to time indefinite.
  14. And now your kingdom will not last.31 Jehovah will certainly find[h] for himself a man agreeable to his heart;32 and Jehovah will commission him as a leader33 over his people, because you did not keep what Jehovah commanded you.”34
  15. ¶ Then Samuel rose and went his way up from Gilʹgal[i] to Gibʹe·ah of Benjamin, and Saul proceeded to take the count of the people, those yet found with him, about six hundred men.35
  16. And Saul and Jonʹa·than his son and the people yet found with them were dwelling in Geʹba36 of Benjamin. As for the Phi·lisʹtines, they had encamped in Michʹmash.37
  17. And the force of pillagers would sally forth from the camp of the Phi·lisʹtines in three bands.38 The one band would turn to the road to Ophʹrah,39 to the land of Shuʹal,
  18. and the other band would turn to the road of Beth-hoʹron,40 and the third band would turn to the road to the boundary that looks toward the valley of Ze·boʹim,[j] toward the wilderness.
  19. ¶ Now there was not a smith to be found in all the land of Israel, because the Phi·lisʹtines had said: “That the Hebrews may not make a sword or a spear.”41
  20. And all the Israelites would go down to the Phi·lisʹtines to get each one his plowshare or his mattock or his ax or his sickle sharpened.[k]42
  21. And the price for sharpening proved to be a pim[l] for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for the three-toothed instruments and for the axes and for fixing fast the oxgoad.43
  22. And it happened on the day of battle that not a sword44 or a spear was found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonʹa·than; but there could be found one belonging to Saul45 and to Jonʹa·than his son.
  23. ¶ Now an outpost46 of the Phi·lisʹtines would sally forth to the ravine pass of Michʹmash.47

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ The number is missing in M.
  2. ^ “Tent,” LXX; MVg, “tents”; Sy, “house.”
  3. ^ “Geba,” MSy. See Jg 20:10 ftn, “Gibeah.”
  4. ^ “Thirty,” MLXXVg; LXXLSy, “three.”
  5. ^ Or, “underground cavities.”
  6. ^ “Had said,” TLXX and four Heb. mss; M omits.
  7. ^ Or, “I thought.”
  8. ^ Or, “seek to find.” See Ps 27:8; Pr 18:15.
  9. ^ LXXIt add: “and the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the warriors. They went from Gilgal.”
  10. ^ Meaning “Hyenas.”
  11. ^ “Forged,” LXX. Compare Ge 4:22.
  12. ^ An ancient weight, approximately two thirds of a shekel.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ac 13:21
  2. ^ 1Sa 14:5; Is 10:28
  3. ^ 1Sa 18:1; 2Sa 1:4; 21:7
  4. ^ Jos 18:28; 1Sa 10:26; 15:34
  5. ^ 1Sa 10:5; 2Sa 23:14
  6. ^ Jos 13:2; 1Sa 9:16
  7. ^ Jos 18:24; 21:17; Zc 14:10
  8. ^ Jg 3:27; 6:34; 2Sa 2:28; 20:1
  9. ^ Ge 34:30; Ex 5:21
  10. ^ Jos 5:9; 1Sa 7:16; 11:14
  11. ^ De 20:1
  12. ^ Ge 22:17; Jos 11:4; Jg 7:12
  13. ^ Jos 7:2; 18:12; 1Sa 14:23
  14. ^ De 4:30
  15. ^ De 20:3; 1Sa 14:11
  16. ^ Le 26:36
  17. ^ Nu 32:1; Jos 13:24
  18. ^ 1Sa 10:26; Pr 24:10
  19. ^ 1Sa 10:8
  20. ^ 1Sa 15:11, 22, 23; Ps 37:7; Pr 11:2; 13:10; 21:24
  21. ^ Ge 47:7; Ru 2:4; 1Sa 15:13; 25:14
  22. ^ Jos 7:19; Ro 14:12
  23. ^ De 20:1; 1Sa 13:6
  24. ^ 1Sa 13:8
  25. ^ 1Sa 13:5
  26. ^ Pr 3:5; 14:12; 19:21
  27. ^ Pr 11:2; 21:24; Mc 6:8
  28. ^ Pr 13:21; Ec 7:17; Je 5:4
  29. ^ Ps 119:4; Ec 12:13; 1Jo 5:3
  30. ^ 1Sa 10:8; 15:11
  31. ^ De 17:20; 1Sa 15:28
  32. ^ 1Sa 16:1; 2Sa 7:15; Ps 78:70; 89:20; Ac 13:22
  33. ^ Ge 49:10; 2Sa 5:2; 7:8; 1Ch 28:4
  34. ^ 1Sa 10:8; Je 7:23; 11:7
  35. ^ 1Sa 13:7; 14:2
  36. ^ Jos 18:24; 1Sa 13:3
  37. ^ 1Sa 13:2; Is 10:28
  38. ^ 1Sa 11:11
  39. ^ Jos 18:23
  40. ^ Jos 10:11; 18:13; 1Ch 6:68; 2Ch 8:5
  41. ^ 2Ki 24:14
  42. ^ Ge 4:22; Pr 27:17
  43. ^ Jg 3:31
  44. ^ Jg 7:20; 1Sa 17:47, 50; Ps 44:3; Zc 4:6
  45. ^ 1Sa 9:16
  46. ^ 1Sa 14:4
  47. ^ 1Sa 13:2; 14:5; Is 10:28

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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