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1 Samuel 13:1-2
New International Version - UK
1 Samuel 13:1-2
New International Version - UK
Samuel rebukes Saul
13 Saul was thirty[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel for forty-[b] two years.
2 Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.
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- 1 Samuel 13:1 A few late manuscripts of the Septuagint; Hebrew does not have thirty.
- 1 Samuel 13:1 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Acts 13:21); Masoretic Text does not have forty-.
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