1Sa 13:8 | NET2full | STEP | He waited for seven days , the time period indicated by Samuel . But Samuel did not come to Gilgal , and the army began to abandon Saul.

1 Samuel 13:8

8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ^{▼▼tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.} But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ^{▼▼tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”}