1 Samuel 13:9

9 So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the offerings of well-being." And he offered the burnt offering.

1 Samuel 13:9 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 13:9

And Saul said
Being impatient, and seeing the people deserting him apace, and unwilling to engage in a battle without first sacrificing to God, and imploring his help and assistance:

bring hither a burnt offering to me;
that is, a creature for a burnt offering, a bullock, sheep, goat, or lamb:

and peace offerings;
which also were either of the herd, or of the flock:

and he offered the burnt offering;
either he himself, or by a priest. In this unsettled time, while the tabernacle, altar, and ark, were at different places, and not yet fixed, it is thought that such who were not priests might offer, and that in high places, and where the tabernacle and altar were not.

1 Samuel 13:9 In-Context

7 Some Hebrews crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

8 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people began to slip away from Saul.

9 So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the offerings of well-being." And he offered the burnt offering.

10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel arrived; and Saul went out to meet him and salute him.

11 Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul replied, "When I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were mustering at Michmash,