1Sa 13:8 | KD | STEP | Saul’s untimely sacrifice . - , 1Sa 13:9. Saul waited seven days for Samuel’s coming, according to the time appointed by Samuel (see at ), before proceeding to offer the sacrifices through which the help of the Lord was to be secured for the approaching campaign (see ); and as Samuel did not come, the people began to disperse and leave him. The Kethib וייחל is either the Niphal ויּיּחל, as in , or Piel וייחל; and the Keri ויּוחל ( Hiphil ) is unnecessary. The verb יעד may easily be supplied to שׁמוּאל אשׁר from the word למּועד (see Ges. Lehrgeb . p. 851).

‏ 1 Samuel 13:8

1Sa 13:8 Saul’s untimely sacrifice. - 1Sa 13:8, 1Sa 13:9. Saul waited seven days for Samuel’s coming, according to the time appointed by Samuel (see at 1Sa 10:8), before proceeding to offer the sacrifices through which the help of the Lord was to be secured for the approaching campaign (see 1Sa 13:12); and as Samuel did not come, the people began to disperse and leave him. The Kethib וייחל is either the Niphal ויּיּחל, as in Gen 8:12, or Piel וייחל; and the Keri ויּוחל (Hiphil) is unnecessary. The verb יעד may easily be supplied to שׁמוּאל אשׁר from the word למּועד (see Ges. Lehrgeb. p. 851).