1 Samuel 9:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don't set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father's house?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 8:5 : 5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
  • 1 Sam 12:13 : 13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and, behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
  • 1 Sam 9:3 : 3 The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
  • 1 Sam 4:20 : 20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.
  • 1 Sam 8:19 : 19 But the people refused to listen 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 will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it was against your fathers.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.
  • Col 3:2 : 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 9:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

    3The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.

    4He passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them.

    5When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.

  • 1 Sam 10:2
    77%

    2When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; and, behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

  • 1 Sam 9:21
    74%

    21Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?

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

    14Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where went you? He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.

    15Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.

    16Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.

    17Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;

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

    16Tomorrow 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 is come to me.

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

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

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

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

    14Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

    15Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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

    12They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:

    13as soon as you are 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 does bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.

  • 1 Sam 28:19
    69%

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

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

    19but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.

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

    21He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.

    22Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.

  • Deut 22:3
    67%

    3So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
    67%

    17Samuel 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;

  • Judg 19:19
    67%

    19Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.

  • 1 Sam 12:3
    67%

    3Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

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

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

    24The 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 you and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    67%

    27He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They saddled it.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    67%

    20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Chr 11:2
    66%

    2In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.

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

    15Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is 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.

    16Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed from you, and is become your adversary?

  • 1 Sam 16:11
    66%

    11Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.

  • 1 Sam 15:19
    66%

    19Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

  • 2 Sam 16:3
    66%

    3The king said, Where is your master's son? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, Today will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

  • 1 Sam 7:3
    66%

    3Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • Gen 37:15
    66%

    15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"

  • 2 Sam 17:3
    66%

    3and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.

  • 2 Kgs 2:17
    66%

    17When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find him.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
    66%

    7Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 22:8
    66%

    8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    66%

    11Samuel 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 16:19
    66%

    19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.

  • 2 Sam 17:12
    66%

    12So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

  • 2 Sam 19:12
    66%

    12You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

  • 1 Sam 10:9
    65%

    9It 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.

  • 2 Sam 19:26
    65%

    26He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.