1 Samuel 13:8

13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ¹  But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ² 

1 Samuel 13:11

13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me ³  and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash,

[13:8]  ¹ 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.

[13:8]  ² tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”

[13:11]  ³ tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”