1 Samuel 13:9-12

13:9 So Saul said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” Then he offered a burnt offering. 13:10 Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. ¹ 

13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me ²  and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash, 13:12 I thought, ³  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated ⁴  to offer the burnt offering.”

[13:10]  ¹ tn Heb “to bless him.”

[13:11]  ¹ tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”

[13:12]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[13:12]  ² tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”