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for the bread departed from our vessels, and not a gift to bring to the man of God: what with us? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the boy will add to answer Saul, and he will say, Behold, we shall find in my hand the fourth of a shekel of silver: and I gave it to the man of God and he announced to us our way. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Before in Israel thus said the man in his going to inquire of God, Come, and we will go even to him seeing, for a prophet this day he will be called; before him seeing. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Saul will say to his boy, Thy word was good; going, we will go: and they will go to the city where was the man of God there.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They going up in the ascent of the city and they found girls going forth to draw water, and they will say to them, Is he seeing, here? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they will answer them and will say, He is; behold, before thee: hasten now, for this day he came to the city for a sacrifice this day to the people Bamah. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As you come to the city thus ye shall find him, before he will go up to Bamah to eat: for the people will not eat till his coming, for he will bless the sacrifice; after this they being called will eat. And now go up, for this day ye shall find him. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they will go up to the city: they coming into the midst of the city, and behold, Samuel coming forth to meet them, to go up to Bamah.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Jehovah revealed in the ear of Samuel one day, before Saul came, saying, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>About the time to-morrow I will send to thee a man from the land of Benjamin, and anoint him for leader over my people Israel; he shall save my people from the hand of Philisteim; for I saw my people, for their cry came to me. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Samuel saw Saul, and Jehovah answered him, Behold the man that I said to thee, He shall rule over my people. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Saul will draw near to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and he will say, Announce to me, now, where the house of him seeing. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Samuel will answer Saul, and say, I the seeing: go up before me to Bamah, and eat with me this day, and I will send thee away in the morrow, and all that is in thy heart I will announce to thee. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And for the asses lost to thee this day three days, thou shall not set thy heart upon them, for they have been found. And to whom all the desire of Israel? is it not to thee and to all thy father's house? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Saul will answer and say, Am not I a son of the Jaminite, from the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and my family small more than all the families of the tribes of Benjamin and wherefore spakest thou to me according to this word?<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Samuel will take Saul and his boy, and will bring them to the chamber, and will give to them place among the first of those being called, and they about thirty men. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Samuel will say to the cook, Thou shalt give the portion which I gave to thee, which I said to thee, Put it with thee. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the cook will lift up the leg and that upon it, and will set before Saul. And he will say, Behold that being left set before thee: eat, for to the appointment being watched for thee, saying, I called the people. And Saul will eat with Samuel in that day.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they will go down from Bamah to the city, and he will speak to Saul upon the roof. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they will rise early: and it will be about the hind of the dawn, and Samuel will call to Saul to the roof, saying, Arise, and I will send thee away. And Saul will arise, and they two will go forth, he and Samuel without. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They coming down to the extremity of the city, and Samuel said to Saul, Say to the boy, Pass over before us: and he will pass over: and thou stand according to the day, and I will cause thee to hear the word of God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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