1 Samuel 13

And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men from the men of Israel; and two thousand were with Saul in Machemas and in the mount of Baithel, and a thousand were with Ionathan in Gabee of Beniamin; and the rest of the people he sent away, each to his tent.

And Ionathan struck Nasib the Philistine who was on the hill, and the Philistines hear of it. And Saul blows a trumpet throughout all the land, saying, The slaves have rebelled.

And all Israel heard them saying, Saul has struck Nasib the Philistine; and Israel was put to shame among the Philistines. And the people cried out after Saul at Galgala.

And the Philistines gather for war against Israel, and they come up against Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and a people as the sand that is by the sea in multitude. And they come up and encamp in Machemas, opposite Baithon toward the south.

And the man of Israel saw that it was hard pressed for him, that he should not draw near; and the people hid themselves in the caves and in the enclosures and in the rocks and in the pits and in the cisterns.

And those crossing over crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Galaad; and Saul was still in Galgala, and all the people following him were in terror.

And he waited seven days, at the appointed testimony, as Samuel had said; but Samuel did not arrive at Galgala, and his people were scattered from him.

And Saul said, Bring them near, that I may make a whole burnt offering and peace offerings. And he offered up the whole burnt offering.

And it came to pass, as he finished offering up the whole burnt offering, that Samuel arrives; and Saul went out to meet him, to bless him.

And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and you did not arrive as you had appointed at the testimony of the days, and the Philistines were gathered at Machemas,

then I said, Now the Philistines will come down against me at Galgala, and I have not entreated the face of the Lord. So I forced myself and offered up the whole burnt offering.

And Samuel said to Saul, You have acted in vain, in that you did not keep my commandment which the Lord commanded you; for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

But now your kingdom shall not stand; the Lord will seek for himself a man after his own heart, and the Lord will appoint him as ruler over his people, because you did not keep what the Lord commanded you.

And Samuel arose and went from Galgala on his own way; and the remnant of the people went up after Saul to meet, behind the people of war, when they came from Galgala to Gabaa of Beniamin. And Saul mustered the people found with him, about six hundred men.

And Saul and Ionathan his son and the people found with them were sitting in Gabee of Beniamin, and they were weeping; and the Philistines had encamped at Machemas.

And a destroying band went out from the field of the Philistines in three companies: the one company looking toward the way of Gophera to the land of Sogal;

and one company looking toward the way of Baithoron; and the one company looking toward the way of Gabee that looks down upon Gai of Sabin.

And a worker in iron was not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make sword and spear.

And all Israel would go down to the land of the Philistines to forge, each his reaping tool and his implement, and each his axe and his pruning hook.

And the vintage was ready for reaping; and the charge for the implements was three shekels for the tooth, and for the axe and for the pruning hook the rate was the same.

And it came to pass in the days of the war of Machemas that no sword or spear was found in the hand of all the people who were with Saul and with Ionathan; but it was found for Saul and for Ionathan his son.

And there went out from the garrison of the Philistines the one that is beyond Machemas.