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1 Samuel 9:2-4
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 9:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 He had a son whose name was Saul. He was a handsome young man, and there was no one in Israel who was more handsome than he. He was also a head taller than anyone else. 3 Now the donkeys belonging to Kish, the father of Saul, were lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the servants with you and go up and look for the donkeys.”[a]
4 So he passed through the hill country of Ephraim, in the area around Shalishah, but he could not find them. Then he went into the area around Shaalim, but they were not there. He next passed into the land of the Benjaminites, but they did not find them.
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- 1 Samuel 9:3 Since horses were not bred in Israel, donkeys were among the livestock of the wealthy (see Job 1:2-3; 42:12); they were the mounts used at that time.
