1 Samuel 9:11

Contextual Overview

¹¹ As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? ¹¹ As they were climbing the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to draw water. So Saul and his servant asked, "Is the seer here today?" ¹¹ As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? ¹¹ As Saul and the servant were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to get water. Saul and the servant asked them, "Is the seer here?" ¹¹ As they were going up the ascent to the town, they met some girls coming out to draw water. They said to them, "Is this where the seer is?" ¹¹ [And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? ¹¹ As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? ¹¹As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer (prophet) here?"¹¹ As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?" ¹¹ And whanne thei stieden in to the hiynesse of the citee, thei founden damesels goynge out to drawe watir, and thei seiden to the dameselis, Whether the seere is here?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hill to the city: Heb. in the ascent of the city, found. Genesis 24:11, Genesis 24:18-20, Exodus 2:16, Judges 5:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:13 - daughters Proverbs 24:15 - Lay

Cross-References

Genesis 9:21
He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 9:21
and he drank of the wine, and was drunk. And he was uncovered inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.

Genesis 9:21
When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.

Genesis 9:21
He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Genesis 9:21
He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay exposed inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
and he drank wyn, and was drunkun; and he was nakid, and lay in his tabernacle.

Genesis 9:21
and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

Genesis 9:21
But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as they went up the hill to the city,.... For the city was built upon an hill, from whence it had the name of Ramah, which signifies high and lifted up:

they found young maidens going out to draw water: going out of the city, to a fountain which was at the bottom of the hill; and this was the usual business of maidens in those countries to fetch water for the service of the family, :-,

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:-. R. Akiba e makes this observation, that whenever a man meets maidens coming out of a city before he goes into it, it is a token of prosperity to him; and instances in the cases of Abraham's servant, of Jacob, and of Moses, and here of Saul, who was informed of a kingdom, and anointed for it, see Genesis 24:14 Exodus 2:16,

and said unto them, is the seer here? meaning, is he in the city? or is he at home? or is he in the country?

e In Pirke Eliezer, c. 36. fol. 39. 1. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:11. Young maidens going out to draw water — So far is it from being true, that young women were always kept closely shut up at home, that we find them often in the field, drawing and carrying water, as here.