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1 Samuel 13:1-2
Names of God Bible
1 Samuel 13:1-2
Names of God Bible
The Lord Rejects Saul as King
13 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king of Israel forty-two years.[a]
2 Saul chose 3,000 men from Israel; 2,000 of them were stationed with Saul at Michmash and in the mountains of Bethel, and 1,000 were stationed with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. But the rest of the people he sent home.
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- 1 Samuel 13:1 The text of 1 Samuel 13:1 is problematic in all traditions. Some late Greek manuscripts state Saul was 30 years old when he became king. The ancient Jewish historian Josephus and Acts 13:21 state that Saul ruled for 40 years.
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