15 Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of [a]Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people present with him, (A)about six hundred men.

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16 Saul, Jonathan his son, and the people present with them remained in [b]Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines encamped in Michmash. 17 Then raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned onto the road to (B)Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:15 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. add And the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the people who fought against them, going from Gilgal to Gibeah in the hill of Benjamin.
  2. 1 Samuel 13:16 Heb. Geba

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