1 Samuel 10:25-27

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²⁵Samuel proclaimed to the people the rights of kingship.^(A) He wrote them on a scroll, which he placed in the presence of the Lord.^(B) Then Samuel sent all the people home.

²⁶Saul also went to his home in Gibeah,^(C) and brave men whose hearts God had touched went with him. ²⁷But some wicked men said, “How can this guy save us?” They despised him and did not bring him a gift,^(D) but Saul said nothing.^[a]^[b]

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10:27 DSS add Nahash king of the Ammonites had been severely oppressing the Gadites and Reubenites. He gouged out the right eye of each of them and brought fear and trembling on Israel. Of the Israelites beyond the Jordan none remained whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh-gilead.
10:27 Lit gift, and he was like a mute person

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