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Saul Is Anointed as King

10 Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it over his head and kissed him and said, “Has not[a] Yahweh anointed you as leader over his inheritance? As you go from with me today,[b] you will find two men near the burial site of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will say to you, ‘The female donkeys that you went to search for have been found.’ Now look, your father is no longer concerned about[c] the female donkeys and has begun worrying about you,[d] saying, ‘What should I do about my son?’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 10:1 Literally “Is it not that”
  2. 1 Samuel 10:2 Literally “the day”
  3. 1 Samuel 10:2 Literally “has given up the matter of”
  4. 1 Samuel 10:2 Here the pronoun is plural, referring to Saul and his servant