30 At this Jacob said to Simʹe·on and to Leʹvi:+ “YOU have brought ostracism upon me in making me a stench to the inhabitants of the land,+ with the Caʹnaan·ites and the Perʹiz·zites; whereas I am few in number,*+ and they will certainly gather together against me and assault me and I must be annihilated, I and my house.”

4 And all Israel itself heard tell: “Saul has struck down a garrison of the Phi·lisʹtines, and now Israel has become foul-smelling+ among the Phi·lisʹtines.” So the people were called together to follow Saul to Gilʹgal.+