1 Samuel 11:4 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 11:4

Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

KJV

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ASV

Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spake these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

WEB

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

YLT

And the messengers come to Gibeah of Saul, and speak the words in the ears of the people, and all the people lift up their voice and weep;

DBT

And the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told these words in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voice and wept.

About this book

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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16 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 10:26
And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
Judges 2:4
And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
1 Samuel 15:34
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Judges 21:2
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

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What is here related turns very much to the honour of Saul, and shows the happy fruits of that other spirit with which he was endued. Though he was anointed king, and accepted by his people, yet he did not think it below him to know the state of his own flocks, but went himself to see them, and came in the evening, with his servants, after the herd out of the field,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H139045× in canon H1058114× in canon H241187× in canon H4397213× in canon

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1SA 11:4JDG 21:2 JDG 2:4
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1SA 11:4JDG 21:2 JDG 20:26
1SA 11:41SA 10:26 JOS 18:28
1SA 11:4JDG 21:2 JDG 20:18
1SA 11:4JDG 2:4 JAS 4:9
1SA 11:4JDG 21:2 1SA 30:4
1SA 11:4JDG 2:4 2CO 7:10
1SA 11:41SA 10:26 ACT 7:10

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