1 Samuel 13:10-12
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt-offering, Samuel arrived; and Saul went out to meet him and salute him. 11 Samuel said, ‘What have you done?’ Saul replied, ‘When I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were mustering at Michmash, 12 I said, “Now the Philistines will come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favour of the Lord”; so I forced myself, and offered the burnt-offering.’
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