1 Rg 13:1Fīlius ūnīus annī erat Saul cum regnāre coepisset: duōbus autem annīs regnāvit super Isrāël.Saul was a son of one year when he had begun to reign: and he reigned for two years over Israel. 1 Rg 13:2Et ēlēgit sibi Saul tria mīllia dē Isrāël: et erant cum Saul duo mīllia in Machmas, et in monte Bethel: mīlle autem cum Jonathā in Gabaā Benjamin: porrō cēterum populum remīsit ūnumquemque in tabernācula sua.And Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand in Michmash, and on the mountain of Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back, each one into his tents. 1 Rg 13:3Et percussit Jonathas statiōnem Philisthinōrum quae erat in Gabaā.And Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines which was in Gibeah. 1 Rg 13:3Quod cum audīssent Philisthiim, Saul cecinit būccina in omnī terrā, dīcēns: Audiant Hebraeī.And when the Philistines had heard this, Saul sounded the trumpet in all the land, saying: "Let the Hebrews hear." 1 Rg 13:4Et ūniversus Isrāël audīvit hujuscemodī fāmam: Percussit Saul statiōnem Philisthinōrum, et ērēxit sē Isrāël adversus Philisthiim.And all Israel heard a report of this kind: "Saul has struck the garrison of the Philistines, and Israel has raised itself up against the Philistines."
1 Rg 13:4Clāmāvit ergō populus post Saul in Galgalā.So the people shouted, following Saul, at Gilgal. 1 Rg 13:5Et Philisthiim congregātī sunt ad praeliandum contrā Isrāël, trīgintā mīllia curruum, et sex mīllia equitum, et reliquum vulgus, sīcut arēnā quae est in littore maris plūrima.And the Philistines were gathered to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and the rest of the common crowd, like the sand which is on the shore of the sea, very much. 1 Rg 13:5Et ascendentēs castrametātī sunt in Machmas ad orientem Bethaven.And going up they pitched camp in Michmash to the east of Beth-aven. 1 Rg 13:6Quod cum vīdissent virī Isrāël sē in arctō positōs (afflīctus enim erat populus), abscondērunt sē in spēluncīs, et in abditīs, in petrīs quoque, et in antrīs, et in cisternīs.And when the men of Israel had seen that they were placed in a tight spot (for the people was distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in hidden places, in rocks too, and in hollows, and in cisterns. 1 Rg 13:7Hebraeī autem trānsiērunt Jordānem in terram Gad et Galaad.And the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. 1 Rg 13:7Cumque adhūc esset Saul in Galgalā, ūniversus populus perterritus est quī sequēbātur eum.And while Saul was still in Gilgal, all the people who followed him were terrified.
1 Rg 13:8Et expectāvit septem diēbus jūxtā placitum Samuelis, et nōn vēnit Samuēl in Galgalā, dīlāpsusque est populus ab eō.And he waited for seven days according to the appointment of Samuel, and Samuel did not come into Gilgal, and the people slipped away from him. 1 Rg 13:9Ait ergō Saul: Afferte mihi holocaustum et pācifica.So Saul says: "Bring me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings." 1 Rg 13:9Et obtulit holocaustum.And he offered the burnt-offering. 1 Rg 13:10Cumque complēsset offerēns holocaustum, ecce Samuēl veniēbat: et ēgressus est Saul obviam eī ut salūtāret eum.And when he had finished offering the burnt-offering, look, Samuel was coming: and Saul went out to meet him in order to greet him. 1 Rg 13:11Locūtusque est ad eum Samuēl: Quid fēcistī?And Samuel spoke to him: "What have you done?" 1 Rg 13:11Respondit Saul: Quia vīdī quod populus dīlāberētur ā mē, et tū nōn vēnerās jūxtā placitōs diēs, porrō Philisthiim congregātī fuerant in Machmas, dīxī: Nunc dēscendent Philisthiim ad mē in Galgalā, et faciem Dominī nōn plācāvī.Saul answered: "Because I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and you had not come according to the appointed days, and the Philistines had gathered in Michmash, I said: Now the Philistines will come down against me in Gilgal, and I have not appeased the face of the Lord.
1 Rg 13:12Necessitāte compulsus, obtulī holocaustum.Compelled by necessity, I offered the burnt-offering." 1 Rg 13:13Dīxitque Samuēl ad Saul: Stultē ēgistī, nec custōdīstī mandāta Dominī Deī tuī quae praecēpit tibi.And Samuel said to Saul: "You have acted foolishly, nor have you kept the commands of the Lord your God which he commanded you. 1 Rg 13:13Quod sī nōn fēcissēs, jam nunc praeparāsset Dominus regnum tuum super Isrāël in sempiternum: sed nēquāquam regnum tuum ultrā cōnsurget.For if you had not done this, the Lord would already now have prepared your kingdom over Israel for ever: but by no means will your kingdom rise up any further. 1 Rg 13:14Quaesīvit Dominus sibi virum jūxtā cor suum: et praecēpit eī Dominus ut esset dux super populum suum, eō quod nōn servāverīs quae praecēpit Dominus.The Lord has sought for himself a man according to his heart: and the Lord has commanded him to be leader over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded." 1 Rg 13:15Surrēxit autem Samuēl, et ascendit dē Galgalīs in Gabaa Benjamin.And Samuel rose, and went up from Gilgal into Gibeah of Benjamin. 1 Rg 13:15Et reliquī populī ascendērunt post Saul obviam populō, quī expugnābant eōs venientēs dē Galgalā in Gabaa, in colle Benjamin.And the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the people who were attacking them, coming from Gilgal into Gibeah, on the hill of Benjamin.
1 Rg 13:15Et recēnsuit Saul populum quī inventī fuerant cum eō, quasi sexcentōs virōs.And Saul counted the people who had been found with him, about six hundred men. 1 Rg 13:16Et Saul et Jonathas fīlius ejus, populusque quī inventus fuerat cum eīs, erat in Gabaā Benjamin: porrō Philisthiim cōnsēderant in Machmas.And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people who had been found with them, were in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines had encamped in Michmash. 1 Rg 13:17Et ēgressī sunt ad praedandum dē castrīs Philisthinōrum trēs cuneī.And there went out from the camp of the Philistines to plunder three bands. 1 Rg 13:17Ūnus cuneus pergēbat contrā viam Ephra ad terram Sual: porrō alius ingrediēbātur per viam Bethhoron-tertius: autem verterat sē ad iter terminī imminentis vallī Seboim contrā dēsertum desertum.One band was proceeding towards the way of Ophrah to the land of Shual: and another was going in by the way of Beth-horon: and the third had turned itself to the road of the border overhanging the valley of Zeboim towards the desert. 1 Rg 13:19Porrō faber ferrārius nōn inveniēbātur in omnī terrā Isrāël: cāverant enim Philisthiim, nē forte facerent Hebraeī gladium aut lanceam.Now an iron-smith was not to be found in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines had taken care, lest perhaps the Hebrews should make a sword or spear.
1 Rg 13:20Dēscendēbat ergō omnis Isrāël ad Philisthiim, ut exacueret ūnusquisque vōmerem suum, et ligōnem, et secūrim, et sarculum.So all Israel used to go down to the Philistines, so that each one might sharpen his ploughshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his hoe. 1 Rg 13:21Retūsae itaque erant aciēs vōmerum, et ligōnum, et tridentum, et secūrium, ūsque ad stimulum corrigendum.And so the edges of the ploughshares, and of the mattocks, and of the forks, and of the axes, had become blunt, even to the goad that needed mending. 1 Rg 13:22Cumque vēnisset diēs praeliī, nōn est inventus ēnsis et lancea in manū tōtīus populī quī erat cum Saule et Jonathā, exceptō Saul et Jonathā fīliō ejus.And when the day of battle had come, there was not found a sword or spear in the hand of all the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son. 1 Rg 13:23Ēgressa est autem statiō Philisthiim, ut trānscenderet in Machmas.And the garrison of the Philistines went out, to cross over to Michmash.