1 Samuel 13:1-2

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Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice

13 Saul was . . .^[a] years old when he began to reign; and he reigned . . . and two^[b]^[c] years over Israel.

²Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib′e-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 13:1 The number is lacking in Heb
1 Samuel 13:1 Two is not the entire number. Something has dropped out.
13.1 Acts 13.21 says Saul reigned forty years; but so did David (2 Sam 5.5). These must be round numbers, to indicate a fairly long rule.

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