When you have departed from me today, you will find two men by (A)Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin (B)at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. And now your father has ceased caring about the donkeys and is worrying about (C)you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?” ’

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Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. And Kish said to his son Saul, “Please take one of the servants with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.” So he passed through the mountains of Ephraim and through the land of (A)Shalisha, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not find them.

When they had come to the land of (B)Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let (C)us return, lest my father cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us.”

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19 So (A)Rachel died and was buried on the way to (B)Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 And Jacob set a pillar on her grave, which is the pillar of Rachel’s grave (C)to this day.

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

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28 Zelah, Eleph, (A)Jebus (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

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Mercy on Ephraim

15 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“A voice was heard in (B)Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter (C)weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because (D)they are no more.”

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