19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the Seer; go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me today, and tomorrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine [a]heart.

20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, care not for them: for they are found: and [b]on whom is set all the desire of Israel? is it not upon thee, and on all thy father’s house?

21 ¶ But Saul answered, and said, Am not I the son of Benjamin of the smallest tribe of Israel? and my family is the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin. Wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 9:19 Meaning, all that thou desirest to know.
  2. 1 Samuel 9:20 Whom doth Israel desire to be their King, but thee?

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