Verse Lens · Concise explanation
1 Samuel 13:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Quick Meaning
Sends two more raiding companies toward Beth-horon and Zeboim.
Read It With
- 1 Samuel 13:15–13:18
Read 1 Samuel 13:18 as one step in 1 Samuel 13:15–13:18: it sends two more raiding companies toward Beth-horon and Zeboim. The complete scene shows that Samuel leaves, Saul counts about six hundred, and three Philistine raiding companies move toward surrounding regions.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit “Six hundred remain as raiders spread out” needs this line's precise work: it sends two more raiding companies toward Beth-horon and Zeboim. The verse remains one part of the scene rather than its complete claim.
What Remains True
Within the flow of 1 Samuel 13:15–13:18, this verse sends two more raiding companies toward Beth-horon and Zeboim. That placement keeps the reader with the full account: Samuel leaves, Saul counts about six hundred, and three Philistine raiding companies move toward surrounding regions.
How It Can Shape Life
- Let 1 Samuel 13:15–13:18 control the use of 1 Samuel 13:18. This line sends two more raiding companies toward Beth-horon and Zeboim. The brief military movements do not reduce threatened communities to map points or make raiding an admirable measure of strength.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Samuel 13:15–13:18 — Six hundred remain as raiders spread outSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: 1 Samuel 13:15–13:18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 13:15–13:18; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: 1 Samuel
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only the translator notes actually printed for these verses, used for lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and older-English controls.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Notes, 1 Samuel PDF, printed pp. 504–543, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 13:15–13:18
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