1 Samuel 13:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Saul was… years old when he began to reign, and he reigned…and two years over Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ SAUL WAS [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Saul was forty years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

Common English Bible

¹ Saul was 30 years old when he became king, and he ruled over Israel forty-two years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ When he began to reign, Saul was the son of one year, and he reigned over Israel for two years.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he reigned two years over Israel.

1 Samuel 13:1 Cross References

Exodus 12:5

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Micah 6:6

“With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

1 Samuel 12:25

But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul chose three thousand out of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home to their tents.