20 (A)As for your donkeys which were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And (B)for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s household?” 21 Saul replied, “(C)Am I not a Benjamite, of (D)the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the [a]tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me in this way?”

22 Then 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 9:21 So some ancient versions; Heb tribes