1 Samuel 9:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Judg 5:10 : 10 Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.
  • Judg 10:4 : 4 And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.
  • 1 Sam 10:2 : 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?

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  • 1 Sam 9:4-8
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    85%

    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.

    6 But the servant said to him, See now, in this town there is a man of God, who is highly honoured, and everything he says comes true: let us go there now; it may be that he will give us directions about our journey.

    7 Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?

    8 But the servant said in answer, I have here a fourth part of a shekel of silver: I will give that to the man of God, and he will give us directions about our way.

  • 1 Sam 10:14-16
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    84%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 9:20-21
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    20 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?

    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 10:2
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    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 10:21-22
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 9:1-2
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    1 Now there was a man of Benjamin named Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a man of wealth.

    2 He had a son named Saul, a specially good-looking young man; there was no one better-looking among the children of Israel: he was taller by a head than any other of the people.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27-28
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    27 And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.

    28 And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.

  • 1 Kgs 13:13
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    13 So the prophet said to his sons, Make ready an ass for me. So they made an ass ready, and he got on it,

  • 1 Sam 11:5
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    5 Now Saul came from the field, driving the oxen before him; and he said, Why are the people weeping? And they gave him word of what the men of Jabesh had said.

  • 1 Sam 15:14-15
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    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 16:19-20
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    19 So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

    20 And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

  • 1 Sam 9:10-11
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    10 Then Saul said to his servant, You have said well; come, let us go. So they went to the town where the man of God was.

    11 And when they were on the way up to the town, they saw some young girls going out to get water and said to them, Is the seer here?

  • 1 Sam 24:2
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    2 Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

  • 1 Sam 14:17
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    17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, Let everyone be numbered and let us see who has gone from us. And when they had been numbered, it was seen that Jonathan and his servant were not there.

  • 1 Kgs 2:40
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    40 Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.

  • 1 Sam 9:26-27
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    26 And about dawn Samuel said to Saul on the roof, Get up so that I may send you away. So Saul got up, and he and Samuel went out together.

    27 And on their way down to the end of the town, Samuel said to Saul, Give your servant orders to go on in front of us, (so he went on,) but you keep here, so that I may give you the word of God.

  • Job 1:14
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    14 And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

  • 1 Sam 9:18
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    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.

  • Judg 19:3
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    3 Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.

  • Gen 22:3
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    3 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

  • Gen 37:15
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    15 And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

  • 1 Sam 26:2
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    2 Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
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    34 And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • 2 Sam 19:26
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    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.

  • Gen 44:3
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    3 And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.

  • 1 Sam 16:2
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    2 And Samuel said, How is it possible for me to go? If Saul gets news of it he will put me to death. And the Lord said, Take a young cow with you and say, I have come to make an offering to the Lord.

  • Deut 22:3
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    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 Chr 9:39
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    39 And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father of Saul; and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

  • Num 31:34
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    34 And sixty-one thousand asses;

  • 1 Sam 9:14
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    14 So they went up to the town, and when they came inside the town, Samuel came face to face with them on his way to the high place.

  • Num 31:39
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    39 The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.

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    55 And when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this young man? And Abner said, On your life, O king, I have no idea.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
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    8 Now on the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his three sons dead on the earth in Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 16:11
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    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.