1╙┴ 9:1 ╬OW THERE WAS A MAN OF ┬ENJAMIN, WHOSE NAME WAS ╦ISH, THE SON OF ┴BIEL, THE SON OF ┌EROR, THE SON OF ┬ECHORATH, THE SON OF ┴PHIAH, A ┬ENJAMITE, A MIGHTY MAN OF POWER.
1╙┴ 9:2 ┴ND HE HAD A SON, WHOSE NAME WAS ╙AUL, A CHOICE YOUNG MAN, AND A GOODLY: AND THERE WAS NOT AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL A GOODLIER PERSON THAN HE: FROM HIS SHOULDERS AND UPWARD HE WAS HIGHER THAN ANY OF THE PEOPLE.
1╙┴ 9:3 ┴ND THE ASSES OF ╦ISH ╙AUL'S FATHER WERE LOST. ┴ND ╦ISH SAID TO ╙AUL HIS SON, ╘AKE NOW ONE OF THE SERVANTS WITH THEE, AND ARISE, GO SEEK THE ASSES.
1╙┴ 9:4 ┴ND HE PASSED THROUGH MOUNT ┼PHRAIM, AND PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF ╙HALISHA, BUT THEY FOUND THEM NOT: THEN THEY PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF ╙HALIM, AND THERE THEY WERE NOT: AND HE PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF THE ┬ENJAMITES, BUT THEY FOUND THEM NOT.
1╙┴ 9:5 ┴ND WHEN THEY WERE COME TO THE LAND OF ┌UPH, ╙AUL SAID TO HIS SERVANT THAT WAS WITH HIM, ├OME, AND LET US RETURN; LEST MY FATHER LEAVE CARING FOR THE ASSES, AND TAKE THOUGHT FOR US.
1╙┴ 9:6 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ┬EHOLD NOW, THERE IS IN THIS CITY A MAN OF ╟OD, AND HE IS AN HONOURABLE MAN; ALL THAT HE SAITH COMETH SURELY TO PASS: NOW LET US GO THITHER; PERADVENTURE HE CAN SHEW US OUR WAY THAT WE SHOULD GO.
1╙┴ 9:7 ╘HEN SAID ╙AUL TO HIS SERVANT, ┬UT, BEHOLD, IF WE GO, WHAT SHALL WE BRING THE MAN? FOR THE BREAD IS SPENT IN OUR VESSELS, AND THERE IS NOT A PRESENT TO BRING TO THE MAN OF ╟OD: WHAT HAVE WE?
1╙┴ 9:8 ┴ND THE SERVANT ANSWERED ╙AUL AGAIN, AND SAID, ┬EHOLD, ╔ HAVE HERE AT HAND THE FOURTH PART OF A SHEKEL OF SILVER: THAT WILL ╔ GIVE TO THE MAN OF ╟OD, TO TELL US OUR WAY.
1╙┴ 9:9 (┬EFORETIME IN ╔SRAEL, WHEN A MAN WENT TO ENQUIRE OF ╟OD, THUS HE SPAKE, ├OME, AND LET US GO TO THE SEER: FOR HE THAT IS NOW CALLED A ╨ROPHET WAS BEFORETIME CALLED A ╙EER.)
1╙┴ 9:10 ╘HEN SAID ╙AUL TO HIS SERVANT, ╫ELL SAID; COME, LET US GO. ╙O THEY WENT UNTO THE CITY WHERE THE MAN OF ╟OD WAS.
1╙┴ 9:11 ┴ND AS THEY WENT UP THE HILL TO THE CITY, THEY FOUND YOUNG MAIDENS GOING OUT TO DRAW WATER, AND SAID UNTO THEM, ╔S THE SEER HERE?
1╙┴ 9:12 ┴ND THEY ANSWERED THEM, AND SAID, ╚E IS; BEHOLD, HE IS BEFORE YOU: MAKE HASTE NOW, FOR HE CAME TO DAY TO THE CITY; FOR THERE IS A SACRIFICE OF THE PEOPLE TO DAY IN THE HIGH PLACE:
1╙┴ 9:13 ┴S SOON AS YE BE COME INTO THE CITY, YE SHALL STRAIGHTWAY FIND HIM, BEFORE HE GO UP TO THE HIGH PLACE TO EAT: FOR THE PEOPLE WILL NOT EAT UNTIL HE COME, BECAUSE HE DOTH BLESS THE SACRIFICE; AND AFTERWARDS THEY EAT THAT BE BIDDEN. ╬OW THEREFORE GET YOU UP; FOR ABOUT THIS TIME YE SHALL FIND HIM.
1╙┴ 9:14 ┴ND THEY WENT UP INTO THE CITY: AND WHEN THEY WERE COME INTO THE CITY, BEHOLD, ╙AMUEL CAME OUT AGAINST THEM, FOR TO GO UP TO THE HIGH PLACE.
1╙┴ 9:15 ╬OW THE ╠╧╥─ HAD TOLD ╙AMUEL IN HIS EAR A DAY BEFORE ╙AUL CAME, SAYING,
1╙┴ 9:16 ╘O MORROW ABOUT THIS TIME ╔ WILL SEND THEE A MAN OUT OF THE LAND OF ┬ENJAMIN, AND THOU SHALT ANOINT HIM TO BE CAPTAIN OVER MY PEOPLE ╔SRAEL, THAT HE MAY SAVE MY PEOPLE OUT OF THE HAND OF THE ╨HILISTINES: FOR ╔ HAVE LOOKED UPON MY PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEIR CRY IS COME UNTO ME.
1╙┴ 9:17 ┴ND WHEN ╙AMUEL SAW ╙AUL, THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO HIM, ┬EHOLD THE MAN WHOM ╔ SPAKE TO THEE OF! THIS SAME SHALL REIGN OVER MY PEOPLE.
1╙┴ 9:18 ╘HEN ╙AUL DREW NEAR TO ╙AMUEL IN THE GATE, AND SAID, ╘ELL ME, ╔ PRAY THEE, WHERE THE SEER'S HOUSE IS.
1╙┴ 9:19 ┴ND ╙AMUEL ANSWERED ╙AUL, AND SAID, ╔ AM THE SEER: GO UP BEFORE ME UNTO THE HIGH PLACE; FOR YE SHALL EAT WITH ME TO DAY, AND TO MORROW ╔ WILL LET THEE GO, AND WILL TELL THEE ALL THAT IS IN THINE HEART.
1╙┴ 9:20 ┴ND AS FOR THINE ASSES THAT WERE LOST THREE DAYS AGO, SET NOT THY MIND ON THEM; FOR THEY ARE FOUND. ┴ND ON WHOM IS ALL THE DESIRE OF ╔SRAEL? ╔S IT NOT ON THEE, AND ON ALL THY FATHER'S HOUSE?
1╙┴ 9:21 ┴ND ╙AUL ANSWERED AND SAID, ┴M NOT ╔ A ┬ENJAMITE, OF THE SMALLEST OF THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL? AND MY FAMILY THE LEAST OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE TRIBE OF ┬ENJAMIN? WHEREFORE THEN SPEAKEST THOU SO TO ME?
1╙┴ 9:22 ┴ND ╙AMUEL TOOK ╙AUL AND HIS SERVANT, AND BROUGHT THEM INTO THE PARLOUR, AND MADE THEM SIT IN THE CHIEFEST PLACE AMONG THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN, WHICH WERE ABOUT THIRTY PERSONS.
1╙┴ 9:23 ┴ND ╙AMUEL SAID UNTO THE COOK, ┬RING THE PORTION WHICH ╔ GAVE THEE, OF WHICH ╔ SAID UNTO THEE, ╙ET IT BY THEE.
1╙┴ 9:24 ┴ND THE COOK TOOK UP THE SHOULDER, AND THAT WHICH WAS UPON IT, AND SET IT BEFORE ╙AUL. ┴ND ╙AMUEL SAID, ┬EHOLD THAT WHICH IS LEFT! SET IT BEFORE THEE, AND EAT: FOR UNTO THIS TIME HATH IT BEEN KEPT FOR THEE SINCE ╔ SAID, ╔ HAVE INVITED THE PEOPLE. ╙O ╙AUL DID EAT WITH ╙AMUEL THAT DAY.
1╙┴ 9:25 ┴ND WHEN THEY WERE COME DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE INTO THE CITY, ╙AMUEL COMMUNED WITH ╙AUL UPON THE TOP OF THE HOUSE.
1╙┴ 9:26 ┴ND THEY AROSE EARLY: AND IT CAME TO PASS ABOUT THE SPRING OF THE DAY, THAT ╙AMUEL CALLED ╙AUL TO THE TOP OF THE HOUSE, SAYING, ╒P, THAT ╔ MAY SEND THEE AWAY. ┴ND ╙AUL AROSE, AND THEY WENT OUT BOTH OF THEM, HE AND ╙AMUEL, ABROAD.
1╙┴ 9:27 ┴ND AS THEY WERE GOING DOWN TO THE END OF THE CITY, ╙AMUEL SAID TO ╙AUL, ┬ID THE SERVANT PASS ON BEFORE US, (AND HE PASSED ON), BUT STAND THOU STILL A WHILE, THAT ╔ MAY SHEW THEE THE WORD OF ╟OD.
