Verse 11

1 Samuel 13:11

Bible in Basic English

11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑יתָ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֡וּל כִּֽי רָאִיתִי֩ כִֽי נָפַ֨ץ הָ/עָ֜ם מֵ/עָלַ֗/י וְ/אַתָּה֙ לֹא בָ֨אתָ֙ לְ/מוֹעֵ֣ד הַ/יָּמִ֔ים וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים נֶאֱסָפִ֥ים מִכְמָֽשׂ
English Translation
And Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me and you did not come to the appointed days, and the Philistines were gathered at Michmash."
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Chapter 13 Context
2 And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Mic... Focus ↗
3 And Jonathan made an attack on the armed force of the Philistines stationed at Gibeah; and news was... Focus ↗
4 And all Israel had the news that Saul had made an attack on the Philistines, and that Israel was bit... Focus ↗
5 And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousa... Focus ↗
6 When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover... Focus ↗
7 And a great number of the people had gone over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but Saul was st... Focus ↗
8 And he went on waiting there for seven days, the time fixed by Samuel: but Samuel did not come to Gi... Focus ↗
9 Then Saul said, Come here and give me the burned offering and the peace-offerings. And he made a bur... Focus ↗
10 And when the burned offering was ended, Samuel came; and Saul went out to see him and to give him a... Focus ↗
11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away fr...
12 I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to th... Focus ↗
13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord y... Focus ↗
14 But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in ever... Focus ↗
15 Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war... Focus ↗
16 And Saul, with Jonathan his son and the people who were with them, was waiting in Geba in the land o... Focus ↗
17 And three bands of men came out from the Philistines to make an attack; one band went by the road wh... Focus ↗
18 And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the va... Focus ↗
19 Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebre... Focus ↗
20 But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hoo... Focus ↗
21 For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for... Focus ↗
22 So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of... Focus ↗
23 And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash. Focus ↗