1 Samuel 9:21-23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²¹ Saul responded, ‘Am I not a Benjaminite^(A) from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe?^(B) So why have you said something like this to me? ’

²² Samuel took Saul and his servant, brought them to the banquet hall, and gave them a place at the head of the thirty^[a] or so men who had been invited. ²³ Then Samuel said to the cook, ‘Get the portion of meat that I gave you and told you to set aside.’