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1 Samuel 10:14

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Now Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied. “When we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.

KJV

And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 10

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
And Saul's uncle said unto him, and to his servant, whither went ye?.... Since they had been absent so long a time. This was his father's brother, as the Targum, and so Aquila; whose name was Ner, the father of Abner, 1Sa 14:50 who met with him at the high place, or found him in the city, in his father's house it may be.

This site's exposition

Where did you go

on 1 Samuel 10:14-16

Saul's uncle asks after the donkeys, and Saul answers only about the donkeys, keeping back the larger matter. The silence is his own choice, since the text says plainly that “Saul did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship”. Gill read the reticence as modesty proper to a man not yet installed before the people, in contrast with the later Saul.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

And Saul's uncle said to him: Tell me, etc. Saul's uncle who speaks with him here is understood to be Ner, the father of Abner, who was the son of Abiel or Saul. Therefore, the relatives and brothers of the Lord, who were seeking what …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Many a one would have been so elated with this surprising elevation as to proclaim it upon the house-top. But Saul, though he might please himself with it in his own breast, did not pride himself in it among his neighbours. The heirs of the kingdom of glory are well enough pleased that the world knows them not, 1 John iii.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Saul’s uncle - The word דוד dod signifies a beloved one, love, a lover, friend, etc.; and is the same as David. It is supposed to mean uncle here; but I think it means some familiar friend.
From the order of the narrative, and the mention of Saul’s servant, it looks as if Saul found his uncle at the high place. Perhaps some solemnity similar to that mentioned in 1Sa 9:19 was going on at this time, in which the prophets had been taking part.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּאמֶר֩and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • דּ֨וֹד[the] uncle of

    dodH1730 →61 times

  • שָׁא֥וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • אֵלָ֛יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • וְאֶֽל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • נַעֲר֖וֹservant his

    naaroH5288 →239 times

  • אָ֣ןwhere?

    ʾanH575 →

  • הֲלַכְתֶּ֑םdid you go

    halakhtemH1980 →1546 times

  • וַיֹּ֕אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • לְבַקֵּשׁ֙to seek

    levakeshH1245 →225 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָ֣אֲתֹנ֔וֹתthe she-asses

    haatonotH860 →34 times

  • וַנִּרְאֶ֣הand we saw

    vanirehH7200 →1300 times

  • כִי־that

    khi-H3588 →4482 times

  • אַ֔יִןthere not

    ʾayinH369 →789 times

  • וַנָּב֖וֹאand we went

    vanavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃Samuel

    shemuelH8050 →141 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 14:50

    His wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Saul’s uncle Ner.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 2:8

      Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

    • 1 Samuel 17:55

      As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,”…

    • 2 Samuel 3:27

      When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the…

  • Through

    2 Kings 5:25

    When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 5:22

      “Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the…

    • Acts 5:3–4

      Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

    • John 13:26–30

      Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this morsel after I have dipped it.” Then He dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.

    • 2 Kings 20:14

      Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

    • Genesis 16:8

      “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

About 1 Samuel

Samuel Blesses Saul — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Samuel Blesses Saul — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Samuel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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