1 Samuel 13:15

15 Então Samuel partiu de Gilgal^[a] e foi a Gibeá de Benjamim, e Saul contou os soldados que estavam com ele. Eram cerca de seiscentos.

1 Samuel 13:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 13:15

And Samuel arose
Seemingly in wrath and displeasure, not staying to offer up the peace offerings which remained; and though no mention is made of Saul's going with him, yet it seems as if he did, or at least quickly followed him, as appears from the next verse:

and got him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin;
the native place of Saul, thereby directing Saul where he should go, and which might be a stronger place than Gilgal; or however where he might expect to be joined by more persons of his own tribe, as well as in the first place protect and defend that; and it looks by Samuel's going thither, though he was displeased with Saul, yet that he did not intend to forsake him directly and entirely:

and Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six
hundred men:
which was done either before he left Gilgal, or as soon as he came to Gibeah; so great a desertion was there from him, that of the 3000 first chosen by him, and of the people after called and gathered to him at Gilgal, only six hundred remained with him; a small number indeed to encounter so large an army the Philistines had brought into the field, and which therefore Saul could not face.

1 Samuel 13:15 In-Context

13 Disse Samuel: “Você agiu como tolo, desobedecendo ao mandamento que o SENHOR, o seu Deus, deu a você; se tivesse obedecido, ele teria estabelecido para sempre o seu reinado sobre Israel.

14 Mas agora o seu reinado não permanecerá; o SENHOR procurou um homem segundo o seu coração e o designou líder de seu povo, pois você não obedeceu ao mandamento do SENHOR”.

15 Então Samuel partiu de Gilgal e foi a Gibeá de Benjamim, e Saul contou os soldados que estavam com ele. Eram cerca de seiscentos.

16 Saul e seu filho Jônatas, acompanhados de seus soldados, ficaram em Gibeá de Benjamim, enquanto os filisteus estavam acampados em Micmás.

17 Uma tropa de ataque saiu do acampamento filisteu em três divisões. Uma foi em direção a Ofra, nos arredores de Sual,

Footnotes

• [a]. A Septuaginta diz "Gilgal e seguiu seu caminho; o restante do povo foi com Saul encontrar-se com o exército, e saíram de Gilgal."