1 Samuel 13:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶The Israelite army realized that they were outnumbered and were going to lose the battle. Some of the Israelite men hid in caves or in clumps of bushes,^[a] and some ran to places where they could hide among large rocks. Others hid in tombs^[b] or in deep dry pits. ⁷Still others^[c] 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,^[d] but Samuel did not come.

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Footnotes

13.6 in … bushes: Or “in cracks in the rocks.”
13.6 tombs: The Hebrew word may mean a room cut into solid rock and used as a burial place, or it may mean a cellar.
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.