012:019 All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king. 012:020 Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart: 012:021 and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain. 012:022 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself. 012:023 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. 012:024 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you. 012:025 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king." 013:001 Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, 013:002 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. 013:003 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. 013:004 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal. 013:005 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. 013:006 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits. 013:007 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 013:008 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 013:009 Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings. He offered the burnt offering. 013:010 It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out