When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by (A)Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, (B)‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now (C)your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

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Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.” And he passed through (A)the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of (B)Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.

When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant[a] who was with him, “Come, let us go back, (C)lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 9:5 Hebrew young man; also verses 7, 8, 10, 27

19 So (A)Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to (B)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), 20 and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is (C)the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.

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16 And Saul said to his uncle, (A)“He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.

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28 Zela, Haeleph, (A)Jebus[a] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah[b] and Kiriath-jearim[c]—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 18:28 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew the Jebusite
  2. Joshua 18:28 Hebrew Gibeath
  3. Joshua 18:28 Septuagint; Hebrew Kiriath

15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping.
(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted for her children,
    (D)because they are no more.”

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