1 Samuel 13:10-23 And as soon as he had made an end of offering burnt offerings behold, Samuel came. And Saul went against him, to salute him. Then said Samuel to Saul, "What hast thou done?"

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ And as soon as he had made an end of offering burnt offerings behold, Samuel came. And Saul went against him, to salute him. Then said Samuel to Saul, "What hast thou done?" ¹¹ And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people scattered from me, and yet thou camest not within the days appointed — and that the Philistines gathered themselves together to Michmash - ¹² then said I, 'The Philistines shall come down upon me to Gilgal, before I have made supplication unto the LORD.' And therefore I took a courage with me and offered burnt offerings." ¹³ Then said Samuel to Saul, "Thou hast done foolishly and hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God which he commanded thee. For at this time would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever. ¹⁴ But now thy kingdom shall not continue. The LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and hath commanded him to be a captain over his people: because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee." ¹⁵ And Samuel arose and gat him from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about a six hundred men. ¹⁶ And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people that were found with them, had their abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines had pitched in Michmash. ¹⁷ And there came out of the host of the Philistines three companies, to destroy: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah unto the land of Shual; ¹⁸ and another company turned the way to Bethhoron; and the third company turned to the way of the coast that turneth to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. ¹⁹ But there was no smith throughout the land of Israel. For the Philistines thought that then the Hebrews might make them swords or spears. ²⁰ And therefore must all Israel go down to the Philistines, to mend every man his share, his mattock, his axe or his sickle: ²¹ as oft as the edges of the sickles, mattocks, dung forks, and axes were blunt, and also to mend their goods. ²² And so in time of battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hands of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: save for Saul and Jonathan his son was there somewhat found. ²³ And the Garrison of the Philistines came out and stood on the other side before Michmash.