1 Samuel 13:15 meaning and explanation

Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 13:15, Berean Standard Bible

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Samuel has just pronounced judgment on Saul for offering the burnt offering himself, and now he leaves Gilgal for Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul counts the troops still with him and finds only about six hundred, a sharp drop from the three thousand of verse 2 and a sign of how badly the standoff with the Philistines has gone.

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