1 Samuel 9:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Judg 5:10 : 10 Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.
  • Judg 10:4 : 4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
  • 1 Sam 10:2 : 2 When 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?

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  • 1 Sam 9:4-8
    5 verses
    85%

    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.

    6He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.

    7Then said Saul to his servant, But, 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 God: what have we?

    8The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

  • 1 Sam 10:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 9:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20As 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?

    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 10:2
    78%

    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 10:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 9:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.

    2He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

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

    28He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.

  • 1 Kgs 13:13
    72%

    13He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon.

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    72%

    5Behold, 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 15:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    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 16:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

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

    20Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

  • 1 Sam 9:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

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

    11As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?

  • 1 Sam 24:2
    70%

    2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

  • 1 Sam 14:17
    70%

    17Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

  • 1 Kgs 2:40
    70%

    40Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

  • 1 Sam 9:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • Job 1:14
    70%

    14that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

  • 1 Sam 9:18
    70%

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

  • Judg 19:3
    69%

    3Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

  • Gen 22:3
    69%

    3Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

  • Gen 37:15
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 26:2
    69%

    2Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    69%

    34David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,

  • 2 Sam 19:26
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 44:3
    68%

    3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

  • 1 Sam 16:2
    68%

    2Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

  • Deut 22:3
    68%

    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 Chr 9:39
    68%

    39Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

  • Num 31:34
    68%

    34and seventy-one thousand donkeys,

  • 1 Sam 9:14
    68%

    14They 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.

  • Num 31:39
    68%

    39The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.

  • 1 Sam 17:55
    68%

    55When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
    68%

    8It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 16:11
    68%

    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.