1 Samuel 13:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷Still others^[a] went to Gad and Gilead on the other side of the Jordan River.

Saul stayed at Gilgal. His soldiers were shaking with fear, ⁸^(A) and they were starting to run off and leave him. Saul waited there seven days, just as Samuel had ordered him to do,^[b] but Samuel did not come. ⁹Finally, Saul commanded, “Bring me some animals, so we can offer sacrifices to please the Lord and ask for his help.”

Saul killed one of the animals,

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Footnotes

13.7 Still others: This translates a Hebrew word which may be used of wandering groups of people who sometimes became outlaws or hired soldiers (see also 14.21).
13.8 Samuel … to do: See 10.8.