1 Samuel 10
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1Samuel took the flask of oil, # Ex 30:23-33; 1Sm 16:13; 2Kg 9:3,6 poured it out on Saul’s head, # 2Kg 9:1-3 kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t the Lord anointed you # 1Sm 16:13; 26:9; 2Sm 1:14 ruler over His inheritance? # LXX adds And you will reign over the Lord’s people, and you will save them from the hand of their enemies all around. And this is the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you ruler over his inheritance. # Dt 32:9; Ps 78:71 2Today when you leave me, you’ll find two men at Rachel’s Grave # Gn 35:19-20 at Zelzah in the land of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you went looking for have been found, # 1Sm 9:3-5 and now your father has stopped being concerned about the donkeys and is worried about you, asking: What should I do about my son? ’
3“You will proceed from there until you come to the oak of Tabor. # Gn 35:8 Three men going up to God at Bethel # Gn 28:19; 35:1,3,7 will meet you there, one bringing three goats, one bringing three loaves of bread, and one bringing a skin of wine. 4They will ask how you are and give you two loaves # DSS, LXX read wave offerings of bread, which you will accept from them.
5“After that you will come to the Hill of God # Or to Gibeath-elohim # 1Sm 13:2-3 where there are Philistine garrisons. # Or governors When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets # 1Sm 19:20; 2Kg 2:3,5,15 coming down from the high place prophesying. # 2Kg 3:15; 1Ch 25:1-6 They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres. 6The Spirit of the Lord will control you, # Nm 11:25,29; Jdg 14:6 you will prophesy with them, # Ec 9:10 and you will be transformed into a different person. # 1Sm 19:23-24 7When these signs have happened to you, do whatever your circumstances require # Lit do for yourself whatever your hand finds # Jos 1:5 because God is with you. 8Afterward, go ahead of me to Gilgal. I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice fellowship offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what to do.”
9When Saul turned around # Lit turned his shoulder to leave Samuel, God changed his heart, # Lit God turned to him another heart and all the signs came about that day. 10When Saul and his attendant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God took control of him, and he prophesied along with them.
11Everyone who knew him previously and saw him prophesy with the prophets asked each other, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? ” # 1Sm 19:24; Am 7:14-15; Mt 13:54-57
12Then a man who was from there asked, “And who is their father? ” # Gn 45:8; Jdg 17:10
As a result, “Is Saul also among the prophets? ” became a popular saying. 13Then Saul finished prophesying and went to the high place.
14Saul’s uncle # 1Sm 14:50 asked him and his attendant, “Where did you go? ”
“To look for the donkeys,” Saul answered. “When we saw they weren’t there, we went to Samuel.” # 1Sm 9:4-6
15“Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you? ”
16Saul told him, “He assured us the donkeys had been found.” However, Saul did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.
Saul Received as King
17Samuel summoned the people to the Lord at Mizpah # 1Sm 7:5 18and said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: # Jdg 6:8-9 ‘I brought Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ 19But today you have rejected your God, # 1Sm 8:6-7 who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to Him, ‘You # Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Vg read You said, ‘No, you . . . must set a king over us.’ # 1Sm 8:19 Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.” # Jos 7:14-18; 24:1; Pr 16:33
20Samuel had all the tribes of Israel come forward, and the tribe of Benjamin was selected. 21Then he had the tribe of Benjamin come forward by its clans, and the Matrite clan was selected. # LXX adds And he had the Matrite clan come forward, man by man. Finally, Saul son of Kish was selected. # Jos 7:16-18 But when they searched for him, they could not find him. 22They again inquired of the Lord, # Ex 28:30; Nm 27:21; 1Sm 23:2,4,9-11 “Has the man come here yet? ”
The Lord replied, “There he is, hidden among the supplies.”
23They ran and got him from there. When he stood among the people, he stood a head taller than anyone else. # Lit people, and he was higher than any of the people from his shoulder and up # 1Sm 9:2 24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the Lord has chosen? # Dt 17:15; 2Sm 21:6 There is no one like him among the entire population.”
And all the people shouted, # LXX reads acknowledged and said “Long live the king! ” # 1Kg 1:25,34,39
25Samuel proclaimed to the people the rights of kingship. # 1Sm 8:11-17 He wrote them on a scroll, which he placed in the presence of the Lord. # Dt 17:18-20 Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his home.
26Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, # 1Sm 11:4; 15:34 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, # 1Kg 10:25; 2Ch 17:5 but Saul said nothing. # 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 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh-gilead. # Lit gift, and he was like a mute person
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1 Kings 10
10
1And Samuel took a little vial of oil; and poured it upon his head; and kissed him; and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance: and thou shalt deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.
2When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south. And they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek; and thy father thinking no more of the asses is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?
3And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.
4And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves. And thou shalt take them at their hand.
5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is. And when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them; and they shall be prophesying.
6And the spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee. And thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.
7When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever thy hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee.
8And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal (for I will come down to thee), that thou mayest offer an oblation, and sacrifice, victims of peace. Seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee: and I will shew thee what thou art to do.
9So when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave unto him another heart: and all these things came to pass that day.
10And they came to the foresaid hill, and, behold, a company of prophets met him. And the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.
11And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing that he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? Is Saul also among the prophets?
12And one answered another, saying: And who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?
13And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
14And Saul's uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither went you? They answered: To seek the asses; and not finding them we went to Samuel.
15And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee.
16And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel had spoken to him, he told him not.
17And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha.
18And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who afflicted you.
19But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations; and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.
20And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and the lot fell on the tribe of Benjamin.
21And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell Upon the kindred of Metri: and it came to Saul the son of Cis. They sought him therefore and he was not found.
22And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold, he is hidden at home.
23And they ran and fetched him thence. And he stood in the midst of the people; and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.
24And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.
25And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house.
26Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.
27But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he dissembled as though he heard not.
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