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Saul Fights the Philistines

13 Saul was…[a] years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for… and two[b] years over Israel.

Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in (A)Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in (B)Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:1 The number is lacking in Hebrew and Septuagint
  2. 1 Samuel 13:1 Two may not be the entire number; something may have dropped out