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The servant answered, ‘I still have one small silver coin. I will give that to the servant of God. Then he will tell us which way we should go.’ (That was the custom in Israel. If someone needed to hear a message from God, he would say, ‘We should go and talk with the seer.’[a] The man that we now call a prophet was called a ‘seer’ at that time.)

10 Saul said to his servant, ‘That is a good idea. We should go now and see him.’ So they went to the town where the servant of God lived.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:9 A seer could see things that other people could not. God sometimes gave special dreams to a seer about things a long way away in time or in space.