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1 Samuel 10:19-21
English Standard Version
1 Samuel 10:19-21
English Standard Version
19 (A)But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore (B)present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”
20 Then Samuel (C)brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. 21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot;[a] and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.
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- 1 Samuel 10:21 Septuagint adds finally he brought the family of the Matrites near, man by man
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