Saul offers sacrifice before Samuel arrives
After Jonathan struck a Philistine garrison, a vast Philistine force gathered and Israel hid in fear. Saul offered the burnt offering before Samuel arrived, and Samuel declared that Saul's kingdom would not endure because he had not kept the LORD's command (1 Samuel 13:1-23).
1Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years. 2He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home. 3Then Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul blew the ram’s horn throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
