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19 Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer. Go up ahead of me[a] to the high place, and you will eat with me today; then I will send you away in the morning. I will tell you all that is on your mind.[b] 20 And as for your female donkeys that were lost three days ago,[c] do not be concerned about them,[d] because they have been found. For whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?”

21 Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the humblest of all the families of the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 9:19 Literally “before my face”
  2. 1 Samuel 9:19 Literally “in your heart”
  3. 1 Samuel 9:20 Literally “the day three of the days”
  4. 1 Samuel 9:20 Literally “you shall not put your heart to them”
  5. 1 Samuel 9:21 Literally “according to this word”