1 Samuel 9
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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Samuel 9:18-24

18Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.” 19Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today; and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is on your mind. 201As for your donkeys which were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And 2for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s household?” 21Saul replied, “3Am I not a Benjamite, of 4the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the 5tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me in this way?”

22Then Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who were invited, who were about thirty men. 23Samuel said to the cook, “6Bring the portion that I gave you, concerning which I said to you, ‘Set it 7aside.’” 24Then the cook 8took up the leg with what was on it and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, “Here is what has been reserved! Set it before you and eat, because it has been kept for you until the appointed time, 9since I said I have invited the people.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Samuel 9:20 1 Sam 9:3 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Samuel 9:20 1 Sam 8:5; 12:13 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Samuel 9:21 1 Sam 15:17 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Samuel 9:21 Judg 20:46-48 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Samuel 9:21 So some ancient versions; Heb tribes ↩
  6. 6. 1 Samuel 9:23 Lit Give ↩
  7. 7. 1 Samuel 9:23 Lit with you ↩
  8. 8. 1 Samuel 9:24 Ex 29:22, 27; Lev 7:32, 33; Num 18:18 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Samuel 9:24 Lit saying ↩

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