1 Samuel 13:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice
13 Saul was . . .[a] years old when he began to reign; and he reigned . . . and two[b] years over Israel.
2 Saul chose three thousand out of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home to their tents. 3 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
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- 1 Samuel 13:1 The number is lacking in the Heb text (the verse is lacking in the Septuagint).
- 1 Samuel 13:1 Two is not the entire number; something has dropped out.
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