1 Samuel 9:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As for your asses which have been wandering for three days, give no thought to them, for they have come back. And for whom are all the desired things in Israel? are they not for you and your father's family?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.
  • 1 Sam 12:13 : 13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.
  • 1 Sam 9:3 : 3 Now the asses of Saul's father Kish had gone wandering away. And Kish said to his son Saul, Take one of the servants with you, and get up and go in search of the asses.
  • 1 Sam 4:20 : 20 And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.
  • 1 Sam 8:19 : 19 But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,
  • 1 Sam 12:15 : 15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
  • Col 3:2 : 2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 9:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

    3 Now the asses of Saul's father Kish had gone wandering away. And Kish said to his son Saul, Take one of the servants with you, and get up and go in search of the asses.

    4 So they went through the hill-country of Ephraim and through the land of Shalishah, but they saw no sign of them: then they went through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there: and they went through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not come across them.

    5 And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us go back, or my father may give up caring about the asses and be troubled about us.

  • 1 Sam 10:2
    77%

    2 When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son?

  • 1 Sam 9:21
    74%

    21 And Saul said, Am I not a man of Benjamin, the smallest of all the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of the families of Benjamin? why then do you say these words to me?

  • 1 Sam 10:14-17
    4 verses
    73%

    14 And Saul's father's brother said to him and his servant, Where have you been? And he said, Searching for the asses: and when we saw no sign of them, we came to Samuel.

    15 Then he said, And what did Samuel say to you?

    16 And Saul, answering him, said, He gave us word that the asses had come back. But he said nothing to him of Samuel's words about the kingdom.

    17 Then Samuel sent for the people to come together before the Lord at Mizpah;

  • 1 Sam 9:16-19
    4 verses
    71%

    16 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and on him you are to put the holy oil, making him ruler over my people Israel, and he will make my people safe from the hands of the Philistines: for I have seen the sorrow of my people, whose cry has come up to me.

    17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, This is the man of whom I gave you word! he it is who is to have authority over my people.

    18 Then Saul came up to Samuel in the doorway of the town and said, Give me directions, if you will be so good, to the house of the seer.

    19 Then Samuel said to Saul, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place and take food with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, after opening to you all the secrets of your heart.

  • 1 Sam 15:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

    15 And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.

  • 1 Sam 9:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 And they said, He is; in fact he is before you: go quickly now, for he has come into the town today, for the people are making an offering in the high place today:

    13 When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.

  • 1 Sam 28:19
    69%

    19 And more than this, the Lord will give Israel up with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me: and the Lord will give up the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 10:19-22
    4 verses
    68%

    19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

    20 So Samuel made all the tribes of Israel come near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

    21 Then he made the tribe of Benjamin come near by families, and the family of the Matrites was taken: and from them, Saul, the son of Kish, was taken: but when they went in search of him he was nowhere to be seen.

    22 So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.

  • Deut 22:3
    67%

    3 Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
    67%

    17 And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,

  • Judg 19:19
    67%

    19 But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

  • 1 Sam 12:3
    67%

    3 Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

  • 1 Sam 9:23-24
    2 verses
    67%

    23 And Samuel said to the cook, Give me that part which I gave you orders to keep by you.

    24 And the cook took up the leg with the fat tail on it, and put it before Saul. And Samuel said, This is the part which has been kept for you: take it as your part of the feast; because it has been kept for you till the right time came and till the guests were present. So that day Saul took food with Samuel.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    67%

    27 And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    67%

    20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Chr 11:2
    66%

    2 In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

  • 1 Sam 28:15-16
    2 verses
    66%

    15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

    16 And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?

  • 1 Sam 16:11
    66%

    11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.

  • 1 Sam 15:19
    66%

    19 Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?

  • 2 Sam 16:3
    66%

    3 And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.

  • 1 Sam 7:3
    66%

    3 Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

  • Gen 37:15
    66%

    15 And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

  • 2 Sam 17:3
    66%

    3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

  • 2 Kgs 2:17
    66%

    17 But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
    66%

    7 I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 22:8
    66%

    8 That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    66%

    11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;

  • 1 Sam 16:19
    66%

    19 So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

  • 2 Sam 17:12
    66%

    12 Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

  • 2 Sam 19:12
    66%

    12 You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

  • 1 Sam 10:9
    65%

    9 And it came about, that when he went away from Samuel, God gave him a changed heart: and all those signs took place that day.

  • 2 Sam 19:26
    65%

    26 And he said in answer, Because of the deceit of my servant, my lord king: for I, your servant, said to him, You are to make ready an ass and on it I will go with the king, for your servant has not the use of his feet.