1 Samuel 13:1

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Exodus 12:5

The lamb must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat.

Micah 6:6

You say, “What can I bring with me when I come before the Lord, when I bow before God on high? Should I come before him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

1 Samuel 12:25

But if you are stubborn and do evil, he will sweep you and your king away.”

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul chose three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand men stayed with him at Micmash in the mountains of Bethel, and one thousand men stayed with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul sent the other men in the army back home.