1 Samuel 9:21

Lutherbibel

Saul antwortete: Bin ich nicht ein Benjamiter und von einem der geringsten Stämme Israels, und mein Geschlecht das kleinste unter allen Geschlechtern der Stämme Benjamin? Warum sagst du denn mir solches?

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Saul antwortete und sprach: Bin ich nicht ein Benjaminiter, von einem der kleinsten Stämme Israels, und ist mein Geschlecht nicht das geringste unter allen Geschlechtern der Stämme Benjamins? Warum sagst du mir denn solches?

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Da antwortete Saul und sprach: Bin ich nicht ein Benjaminiter, von einem der kleinsten St�mme Israels, und ist nicht meine Familie die geringste unter allen Familien des Stammes Benjamin? Und warum redest du dergleichen Worte zu mir?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a Benjamite: Judges 20:46-48, Psalms 68:27

my family: 1 Samuel 10:27, 1 Samuel 15:17, 1 Samuel 18:18, 1 Samuel 18:23, Judges 6:14, Judges 6:15, Hosea 13:1, Luke 14:11, Ephesians 3:8

so to me: Heb. according to this word

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 10:22 - hid 1 Samuel 14:51 - Kish 2 Samuel 7:18 - Who am I 1 Chronicles 17:16 - what is Luke 1:29 - what

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul answered and said, am not I a Benjamite,.... Or the son of Jemini, the name of one of his ancestors, see 1 Samuel 9:1 or rather, as the Targum, a son of the tribe of Benjamin:

of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? having been greatly reduced, even to the number of six hundred men, by the fatal war between that tribe and the rest, on account of the Levite's concubine, and is called little Benjamin, Psalms 68:27.

and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? the smallest in number, had the least share of authority in the tribe, and of land and cattle, wealth and substance:

wherefore then speakest thou so to me? Saul presently understood Samuel's meaning, that he should be chosen king of Israel, the affair of a king being at this time in everyone's mind and mouth; but could not believe that one of so small a tribe, and which sprung from the youngest son of Jacob, and of so mean a family, would be raised to such dignity, but that a person of great figure and character would be settled upon; and, therefore he took Samuel to be in joke, as Josephus m says, and not in earnest.

m Antiqu. l. 6. c. 4. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The tribe of Benjamin, originally the smallest of all the tribes Numbers 1:36, if Ephraim and Manasseh are reckoned as one tribe, had been nearly annihilated by the civil war recorded in Judges 20:0. It had of course not recovered from that terrible calamity in the time of Saul, and was doubtless literally much the smallest tribe at that time. Nothing could be more improbable, humanly speaking, than that this weak tribe should give a ruler to the mighty tribes of Joseph and Judah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:21. Am not I a Benjamite — This speech of Saul is exceedingly modest; he was now becomingly humble; but who can bear elevation and prosperity? The tribe of Benjamin had not yet recovered its strength, after the ruinous war it had with the other tribes, Judges 20:29-46.