Samuel Anoints Saul

There was a Benjamite,(A) a man of standing,(B) whose name was Kish(C) son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bekorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

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51 Saul’s father Kish(A) and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

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21 Then the people asked for a king,(A) and he gave them Saul(B) son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,(C) who ruled forty years.

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36 and his firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah and Mikloth. 38 Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

39 Ner(A) was the father of Kish,(B) Kish the father of Saul, and Saul the father of Jonathan,(C) Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 9:39 Also known as Ish-Bosheth

30 and his firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner,[a] Nadab, 31 Gedor, Ahio, Zeker 32 and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. They too lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

33 Ner(A) was the father of Kish,(B) Kish the father of Saul(C), and Saul the father of Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab and Esh-Baal.[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 8:30 Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 9:36); Hebrew does not have Ner.
  2. 1 Chronicles 8:33 Also known as Ish-Bosheth

A certain man in Maon,(A) who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy.(B) He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing(C) in Carmel.

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and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys,(A) and had a large number of servants.(B) He was the greatest man(C) among all the people of the East.(D)

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32 Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy(A) man.

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