1 Samuel 9:6

1 Samuel 9:6

4 So he passed through the mountains of Ephraim and through the land of ^aShalisha, 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.

5 When they had come to the land of ^aZuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let ^bus return, lest my father cease caring about the donkeys and become worried about us.”

6 And he said to him, “Look now, there is in this city ^aa man of God, and he is an honorable man; ^ball that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go.”

7 Then Saul said to his servant, “But look, if we go, ^awhat shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

8 And the servant answered Saul again and said, “Look, I have here at hand one-fourth of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.”

9 (Formerly in Israel, when a man ^awent to inquire of God, he spoke thus: “Come, let us go to the seer”; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called ^ba seer.)

10 Then Saul said to his servant,¹ “Well said; come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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there is in this city a man of God—Ramah was the usual residence of Samuel, but several circumstances, especially the mention of Rachel's sepulchre, which lay in Saul's way homeward [I Samuel 10:2], lead to the conclusion that "this city" was not the Ramah where Samuel dwelt.

peradventure he can show us our way that we should go—It seems strange that a dignified prophet should be consulted in such an affair. But it is probable that at the introduction of the prophetic office, the seers had discovered things lost or stolen, and thus their power for higher revelations was gradually established.

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