1 Samuel 9:15

World English Bible (2000)

Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 15:1 : 1 Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
  • Acts 13:21 : 21 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
  • Acts 27:23 : 23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
  • 1 Sam 9:17 : 17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people."
  • 1 Sam 20:2 : 2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."
  • 2 Sam 7:27 : 27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
  • Job 33:16 : 16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
  • Mark 11:2-4 : 2 and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him. 3 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here." 4 They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
  • Mark 14:13-16 : 13 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, 14 and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"' 15 He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there." 16 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:1
    85%

    1 Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 9:16-19
    4 verses
    84%

    16 "Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry has come to me."

    17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, "Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people."

    18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is."

    19 Samuel answered Saul, and said, "I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.

  • 1 Sam 15:10-14
    5 verses
    82%

    10 Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,

    11 "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

    12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."

    13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh."

    14 Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"

  • 1 Sam 15:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on."

    17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

  • 1 Sam 9:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 As soon as you have come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you shall find him."

    14 They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

  • 1 Sam 9:23-27
    5 verses
    78%

    23 Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Set it aside.'"

    24 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, "Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because for the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, 'I have invited the people.'" So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

    25 When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

    26 They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, "Get up, that I may send you away." Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

    27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant pass on before us" (and he passed on), "but stand still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God."

  • 1 Sam 16:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1 Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons."

    2 Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." Yahweh said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

    3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you."

    4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

  • 1 Sam 3:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

    10 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" Then Samuel said, "Speak; for your servant hears."

  • 1 Sam 16:6
    77%

    6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, "Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him."

  • 1 Sam 10:9
    76%

    9 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day.

  • 1 Sam 28:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 He said to her, "What does he look like?" She said, "An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe." Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

    15 Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do."

  • 1 Sam 8:10
    76%

    10 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.

  • 1 Sam 13:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.

    11 Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

  • 1 Sam 13:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

    14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you."

    15 Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

  • 1 Sam 16:13
    75%

    13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

  • 1 Sam 8:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

    22 Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city."

  • 1 Sam 9:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, "Come, and let us go to the seer;" for he who is now called a prophet was before called a Seer.)

    10 Then Saul said to his servant, "Well said. Come, let us go." So they went to the city where the man of God was.

  • 1 Sam 15:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

    35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 3:15
    74%

    15 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

  • 1 Sam 10:1
    74%

    1 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, "Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

  • 1 Sam 3:7
    74%

    7 Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed to him.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
    74%

    17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    74%

    5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

  • 1 Sam 28:19
    74%

    19 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."

  • 1 Sam 12:1
    74%

    1 Samuel said to all Israel, "Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

  • 1 Sam 10:17
    73%

    17 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;