The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
Some of the evidence (1 Samuel 10:8 and 1 Samuel 13:8) seems to support the view that the events of chapter 13 happened early in Saul’s reign. Other evidence (the ages of David and Jonathan) suggests that they may have happened much later. I favor the view that the events in chapter 13 follow those in chapter 10 closely. [Note: See again the "Chronology of 1 and 2 Samuel" at the beginning of these notes.] 