◄ 1 Samuel 10:22 ►
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Good News Translation
they asked the LORD, "Is there still someone else?" The LORD answered, "Saul is over there, hiding behind the supplies."

New Revised Standard Version
So they inquired again of the LORD, “Did the man come here?” and the LORD said, “See, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”

Contemporary English Version
The people prayed, "Our LORD, is Saul here?" "Yes," the LORD answered, "he is hiding behind the baggage."

New American Bible
Again they consulted the LORD, “Is there still someone else to come forward?” The LORD answered: He is hiding among the baggage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home.

enquired

1 Samuel 23:2-4,11,12 Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila. . . .

Numbers 27:21 If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

Judges 1:1 After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

Judges 20:18,23,28 And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to go to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your leader. . . .

hid

1 Samuel 9:21 And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me?

1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Context
Saul Proclaimed King
…21And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the son of Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not found. 22And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home.23And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:22
But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:21
And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the son of Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not found.

1 Samuel 14:37
And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day.

1 Samuel 15:17
And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

1 Samuel 22:10
And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.

1 Samuel 23:2
Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.

1 Samuel 23:4
Therefore David consulted the Lord again. And he answered and said to him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

1 Samuel 10:21
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