1 Samuel 9:14

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?

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they went up into the city,.... Saul and his servant went up the hill to the city of Ramah: and

when they were come into the city; were within it, within the walls of it;

behold, Samuel came out against them; came out of a door of his house upon them, just as they came up: or "to meet them" i; his way to the high place lay where they were coming; unless it can be thought he went out purposely to meet them, having, as in the following verse, an intimation, that about that time one from the tribe of Benjamin, who should be king, would come to him, and so made this his way, knowing that one coming from that tribe must come that way; but it seems most likely that this was his readiest way:

for to go up to the high place; or place of sitting down, or feasting, as the Targum, :-.

i לקראתם "in occursum eorum", Pagninus, Montanus; "eis obviam", V. L. Tigurine version.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 9:14. Come out against them — Met them.