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14 but now your rule won’t last. The Lord will search for a man following the Lord’s own heart,[a] and the Lord will commission him as leader over God’s people, because you didn’t keep the Lord’s command.”

15 Samuel got up and went on his way from Gilgal, but the rest of the people followed Saul to join the army, and they went from Gilgal[b] to Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul counted about six hundred men still with him. 16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the people who were with him were staying at Geba in Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:14 Or a man loyal to the Lord
  2. 1 Samuel 13:15 LXX; MT lacks much of this verse.

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