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## 1 Samuel 13:17-23 in Context (Verses 14–23 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/14) But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him *to be* captain over his people, because thou hast not kept *that* which the LORD commanded thee.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/15) And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people *that were* present with him, about six hundred men.*
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/16) And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people *that were* present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.**
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/17) ¶ And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way *that leadeth to* Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/18) And another company turned the way *to* Beth-horon: and another company turned *to* the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/19) ¶ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make *them* swords or spears:
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/20) But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/21) Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.**
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/22) So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that *were* with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-samuel/13/23) And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.*
 
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