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1 Samuel 9:5-7
Contemporary English Version
1 Samuel 9:5-7
Contemporary English Version
5 Finally they came to the territory where the clan of Zuph[a] lived. “Let's go back home,” Saul told his servant. “If we don't go back soon, my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us!”
6 “Wait!” the servant answered. “There's a man of God who lives in a town near here. He's amazing! Everything he says comes true. Let's talk to him. Maybe he can tell us where to look.”
7 Saul said, “How can we talk to the prophet when I don't have anything to give him? We don't even have any bread left in our sacks. What can we give him?”
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- 9.5 Zuph: Samuel's father Elkanah was from the Zuph clan.
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