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1 SAMUEL 8:13–9:10 Due of a king. Saul seeks she-asses 372
chariot instruments. a 13 And
YOUR daughters he will take for
ointment mixers and cooks and
bakers. b 14 And YOUR fields
and YOUR vineyards c and YOUR
olive groves, d the best ones,
he will take and actually give
to his servants. 15 And of YOUR
fields of seed and of YOUR vineyards
he will take the tenth, e and
he will certainly give them to his
court officials f and his servants.
16 And YOUR menservants and
YOUR maidservants and YOUR
best herds, and YOUR asses he
will take, and he will have to use
them for his work. g 17 Of YOUR
flocks h he will take the tenth, and
YOU yourselves will become his as
servants. 18 And YOU will certainly
cry out in that day by reason
of YOUR king, i whom YOU have
chosen for yourselves, but Jehovah
will not answer YOU in that
day.” j
19 However, the people refused
to listen to the voice of
Samuel k and said: “No, but a king
is what will come to be over us.
20 And we must become, we
also, like all the nations, l and our
king must judge us and go out
before us and fight our battles.”
21 And Samuel gave a hearing to
all the words of the people; then
he spoke them in the ears of Jehovah.
m 22 And Jehovah proceeded
to say to Samuel: “Listen
to their voice, and you must
cause a king to reign for them.” n
Accordingly Samuel said to the
men of Israel: “Go each one to his
city.”
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Now there happened to be
a man of Benjamin, and his
name was Kish, o the son of A·biel,
the son of Zeror, the son of
Be·corath, the son of A·phiah,
aBenja·min·ite, p a man mighty
in wealth. q 2 And he happened
to have a son whose name was
Saul, r young and handsome, and
there was no man of the sons of
Israel that was handsomer than
CHAP. 8
a 1Ki 4:26
b 1Ki 4:22
c 1Ki 21:7
d 1Ch 27:28
e 1Ki 12:10
f Ge 37:36
1Ch 28:1
g 1Ki 5:16
h 1Ki 4:23
i 1Ki 12:4
j Job 27:9
Ps 18:41
Pr 1:26
Mic 3:4
k Ps 81:11
Jer 7:13
Eze 33:31
l Le 20:24
Nu 23:9
De 7:6
1Sa 8:5
Ps 106:35
m Ps 99:6
n 1Sa 8:7
Ho 13:11
CHAP. 9
o 1Sa 14:51
1Ch 8:33
1Ch 9:39
Ac 13:21
p Jg 21:17
q 1Sa 25:2
2Sa 19:32
Job 1:3
r 1Sa 11:15
1Sa 13:13
1Sa 15:26
1Sa 16:23
1Sa 28:7
1Sa 31:4
2Sa 1:23
Ac 13:21
Second Col.
a 1Sa 10:23
b Jg 5:10
Jg 10:4
c Jos 17:10
Jos 17:16
d 2Ki 4:42
e 1Sa 9:20
1Sa 10:2
f De 33:1
1Sa 2:27
1Ki 13:1
2Ki 6:6
g 1Sa 3:19
Isa 44:26
Zec 1:6
Heb 1:1
h 1Ki 14:3
2Ki 4:42
Ga 6:6
i 2Ki 5:15
2Ki 8:8
Pr 17:8
Pr 18:16
j Ge 24:22
k 1Sa 9:19
2Sa 15:27
1Ch 9:22
1Ch 29:29
he; from his shoulders upward he
was taller than all the people. a
3 And the she-asses b belonging
to Kish the father of Saul got
lost. So Kish said to Saul his son:
“Take, please, withyou one of the
attendants and get up, go, look
for the she-asses.” 4 And he
went passing through the mountainous
region of Ephra·im c and
passing on through the land of
Shali·shah, d and they did not
findthem.Andtheywentpassing
on through the land of Shaalim,
but they were not there. And
he went passing on through the
land of the Benja·min·ites, and
theydidnotfindthem.
5 They themselves came into
the land of Zuph; and Saul, for
his part, said to his attendant
that was with him: “Do come,
and let us return, that my
father may not quit attending
to the she-asses and actually
become anxious about us.” e
6 But he said to him: “Look,
please! There is a man of God f
in this city, and the man is held
in honor. All that he says comes
true without fail. g Let us go there
now. Perhaps he can tell us our
waythatwemustgo.” 7 At this
Saul said to his attendant: “And
if we should go, what shall we
bring to the man? h because
the bread itself has disappeared
from our receptacles, and, as a
gift, i there is nothing to bring to
the man of the true God. What is
there with us?” 8 So the attendant
answered Saul once more
and said: “Look! There is a quarter
of a shekel j of silver found in
my hand, and I shall have to give
it to the man of the true God,
and he will have to tell us our
way.” 9 (In former times in Israel
this was the way the man
wouldhavetalkedonhisgoing
to seek God: “COME, andletus
go to the seer.” k For the prophet
oftodayusedtobecalledaseer
in former times.) 10 Then Saul
said to his attendant: “Your word