“Look,” the servant said, “there’s a man of God(A) in this city who is highly respected; everything he says is sure to come true.(B) Let’s go there now. Maybe he’ll tell us which way we should go.”(C)

“Suppose we do go,” Saul said to his servant, “what do we take the man? The food from our packs is gone, and there’s no gift to take to the man of God.(D) What do we have?”

The servant answered Saul, “Here, I have a little[a] silver. I’ll give it to the man of God, and he will tell us which way we should go.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:8 Lit a quarter of a shekel (about a tenth of an ounce)

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