1 Samuel 13:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 13

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¹Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

1 Samuel 13:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 12:5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Micah 6:6
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

We are not told wherein it was that the people of Israel offended God, so as to forfeit his presence and turn his hand against them, as Samuel had threatened (1 Sam. 12:15); but doubtless they left God, else he would not have left them, as here it appears he did; for, I. Saul was very weak and impolitic, and did not order his affairs with discretion. Saul was the son of one year (so the first word…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

1Sa 13:1, 2. Saul’s Selected Band. 1. Saul reigned one year--(see Margin). The transactions recorded in the eleventh and twelfth chapters were the principal incidents comprising the first year of Saul’s reign; and the events about to be described in this happened in the second year.