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12 I thought,[a] ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated[b] to offer the burnt offering.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:12 tn Heb “said.”
  2. 1 Samuel 13:12 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”