1 Samuel 13:1

Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign; when he had reigned forty years over Israel,

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Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

In Context

2he chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with him in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the soldiers he sent home, each man to his tent.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:5Your lamb or young goat must be without blemish, a one-year-old male. You may take one of the sheep or goats.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 13:1

Those that desired a king like all the nations fancied that, when they had one, they should look very great and considerable; but in this chapter we find it proved much otherwise. While Samuel was joined in commission with Saul things went well, ch. xi. 7 . But, now that Saul began to reign alone, all went to decay, and Samuel's words began to be fulfilled: "You shall be consumed, both you and your king;" for never was the state of Israel further gone in a consumption than in this chapter. I. Saul appears here a… Read the whole commentary →

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