1 Samuel 13:10-12

New English Translation

¹⁰ Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.^[a]

¹¹ But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me,^[b] and that you didn’t come at the appointed time, and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash, ¹² I thought,^[c] ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated^[d] to offer the burnt offering.”