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## 1 Samuel 9:11-17 in Context (Verses 8–20 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/8) And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: *that* will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/9) (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for *he that is* now *called* a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
 
 [10 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/10) Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God *was*.*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/11) ¶ *And* as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/12) And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, *he is* before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for *there is* a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/13) As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; *and* afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.*
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/14) And they went up into the city: *and* when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/15) ¶ Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,*
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/16) To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him *to be* captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/17) And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/18) Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer’s house *is*.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/19) And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I *am* the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that *is* in thine heart.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/9/20) And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom *is* all the desire of Israel? *Is it* not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?*
 
[1 Samuel 8](/kjv/1-samuel/8) [1 Samuel 10](/kjv/1-samuel/10)

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