I. Samvue: VIII. 19.

haye_chosen you; and ‘the Lorp will not «hear pou in that day.”
12 Nevertheless the people refused to kobey the_voice_of Samuél; and they said, “Nay ; but we will_have a king over us;
20 That we also -may_be like all the nations ; and that our king ‘may_judge us, and -go_out before us, and -fight our rbattles.”
21 And Samuél heard -all the_words_
.|of the people, and he rehearsed them
in the_ears_of ‘the Lorp.
2 And !the Lorp said to Samuél, “-Hearken unto their voice, and ‘make them aking.” And Samuél said unto the_« men_of Israél, “*Go ye ‘every man unto his city.”
NOW there was a :man of Benja- min, whose name was * Kish, the_ son_of Abiél, the_son_of Zeror, the_son_ of Bechorath, the_son_of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty_man_of power.
2 And he had a son, whose name was saSaul, a choice_young_man, and a goodly : and there was not among the_ schildren_of Israél a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and up- ward he was higher than any_of the people.
3 And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were_lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, “-Take now -one of the y servants with thee, and «arise, go «seek -the
+ And he passed_through * mount
. | Ephraim, and passed_through the_land_
of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed_through the_land_of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed_through the_land_of the Ben- jamites, but they found them not.
5 And when thep were_come to the_ land_of Zuph, Saul said to his yser- vant that was with him, “*Come and let_us_return; lest my father ‘leave caring for the asses, and » ‘take_thought for us.”
6 And he said unto him, “Behold now, there is in xthis xcity a ‘man_of =God, and he is an honourable ‘ man ; all that he ‘saith cometh surely_to_ pass: now ‘let_us_go thither; perad- venture he 'can_shew us our «way that we -should_go.”
7 Then said Saul to his yservant, “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 x=God : what have we?”
8 And the yservant answered -Saul again, and said, “Behold, I -have here at hand the_fourth_part_of a shekel_of Silver : that -will_I_give to the_‘ man_of x=God, to -tell us our
® (Beforetime in Israél, when a ‘xman went to inquire_of =God, thus he spake, “Come, and let_us_go to the seer:” for he that is now called a pxProphet “was beforetime called a se xSeer.)
10 Then said Saul to his y servant, “Well said ; -come, 'let_us_go.” So they went unto the city where the_‘ man_of x=God was.