1Sa 13:9-16 | ESV | STEP | So Saul said , Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings . And he offered the burnt offering .

1 Samuel 13:9-16

9 So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him. 11 Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, 12 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” 13 And Samuel said to Saul, ^a“You have done foolishly. ^bYou have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now ^cyour kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man ^dafter his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince ^{▼▼Or leader} over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” 15 And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks The rest of the people . . . from Gilgal} to ^gGibeah of Benjamin.

And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, ^habout six hundred men. 16 And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in ⁱGeba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.