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1 Samuel 13:1-2
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Samuel 13:1-2
Evangelical Heritage Version
Saul’s Reign Gets Off to a Bad Start
13 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.[a]
2 Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul at Mikmash and in the hill country near Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah[b] of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.
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- 1 Samuel 13:1 The Hebrew text of verse 1 contains no number for Saul’s age and reads two years for the length of his reign. The numbers thirty and forty- are provided by a few manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament and by Acts 13:21.
- 1 Samuel 13:2 Gibeah is the reading of the Hebrew text. The Greek Old Testament reads Geba. If the reading Gibeah is correct, Jonathan launched his attack from the more distant Gibeah rather than already being at a forward position near Geba as the Greek says.
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