I Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 284

17 He will- take your sheep, and make 18 you his servants. And than you will shriek at the sight of your leader whom you have chosen for your- seives, but the Evan-1.1vmG will not answer you at that day I ’ iililyc §z¤p1z, lynimhzr, pzrzizi in 20 21 22 their Qmunnh. The People, however, refused to

listen to the voice of Samuel, and No§ He will only be a leader over us! And we shall then be like the other nations; and our Leader can organize us; and can lead us out, and fight our battles} So Samuel listened to all the

utterances of the People and reported them inthe ears of the EvEn·r.1v11~zo. And the EVER · LIVING replied, Listen to their voice, and select a

Samuel, however, Go each to his own village} (nc. mg5.) ihislurg nf Saul mth his 3'sil3e:’¤ lust Qsszs. 9 Now there was a man of the tribe of Benjamin named Kish, ben Abial, ben Tzeror, ben Bikorath, ben Afrakh, ben Arih, a Benjaminite of

2 great power, who had a son named Saul, big and handsome, and there was not a man in the nation of Israel handsorner than he was; taller than any man by the shoulders and upwards. And Kish, Sau1’s father, had lost some asses, so Kish said to Saul his son, ‘“ Take with you one of the servants, and arise, go, He there- fore went over Mount Ephraim, and searched in the country of Shilshah and did not {ind them. Then he examined the district of Shalim and they were not there; so he passed to the district of jamen, and found them not. Thence they went to the country of Tzuf, when Saul said to Where will this journey take us to? Let us return, or my father will leave grieving for the asses, and fret about us.’ There is a

Man of GOD in this town, and a man to be respected ;--·all he says happens. Let us go to him now. Perhaps he may tell us the way we should follow. ‘Welll if we should go, how could we make the man to instruct? for our stock of bread is exhausted! So we have no present to bring to the Man of GOD —·What have we`? ' The youth continued in answer to

Lookl I have found in my pocket a quarter shekel of silver. We will give that to the Man of GOI1, and he will inform us about our gourney. (Formerly in Israel a man said

Let us go to the Seer·—for the Instruc- tor! of to-day was formerly called a Seen?) Then Saul replied to the youth,

'You have spoken well! Let us They went accordingly to the top

of the town, and met girls coming out to draw water, and asked them, ‘ Is there a Seer in this place? And they answered them and

He is now before you on the hill, for he has to-day come to the town, for he sacrifices for the people on the height; so if you go into the village you will meet him before he goes to the height to eat. The People will not eat before he comes, for he will bless the sacritice. After that they will eat the Festival. So now go,—-for this is the day to meet him.' They therefore went up the village

until they came to the centre of the town; and then Samuel came to meet them, at the ascent of the height, for the Even-Lrvmo had opened the understanding of Samuel that very day, before the coming of At this time to—morrow I shall send to you from the district of Benjamin the man whom you must consecrate as the Leader of’My People Israel. He will deliver My People from the power of the Philishtim, and he shall shepherd My People, for its cries have come to When Samuel saw Saul, the EVER-

That is the man of whom I spoke to you. He will organize My People. I0 I! I2` 16

in Hebrew_R*3], Nunn,

—-that is, an Instructor or Teacher, not a foreseer of events. The latter is an entirely modern meanini only ascribed to the word Prophet or Prop ecy in the eighteenth century. In ` the seventeenth it meant Preacher.-di. F. Saul, however, answered to his lad, l * *• Rash.?-·F. F. 284