1 Samuel 9:2 mention
He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better pers
1 Samuel 9:3 event
The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Take now one of the servants with you, and ar
1 Samuel 9:5 event
When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, and let us return, lest my fat
1 Samuel 9:7 event
Then Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks
1 Samuel 9:8 event
The servant answered Saul again, and said, “Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give
1 Samuel 9:10 event
Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
1 Samuel 9:15 event
Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
1 Samuel 9:17 event
When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people
1 Samuel 9:18 event
Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”
1 Samuel 9:19 event
Samuel answered Saul, and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In
1 Samuel 9:21 mention
Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the famili
1 Samuel 9:22 event
Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those
1 Samuel 9:24 event
The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been
1 Samuel 9:25 mention
When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
1 Samuel 9:26 event
They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.”
1 Samuel 9:27 event
As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” He went ah
1 Samuel 10:11 mention
When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, “Wh
1 Samuel 10:12 event
One of the same place answered, “Who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
1 Samuel 10:14 event
Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they we
1 Samuel 10:15 event
Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
1 Samuel 10:16 event
Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of w
1 Samuel 10:21 mention
He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of
1 Samuel 10:26 event
Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel 11:4 event
Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted
1 Samuel 11:5 mention
Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told h
1 Samuel 11:6 event
God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.
1 Samuel 11:7 event
He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messen
1 Samuel 11:11 event
On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch,
1 Samuel 11:12 event
The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to dea
1 Samuel 11:13 event
Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
1 Samuel 11:15 event
All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of p
1 Samuel 13:1 event
Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
1 Samuel 13:2 event
Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount o
1 Samuel 13:3 event
Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet
1 Samuel 13:4 event
All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abominatio
1 Samuel 13:7 event
Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, a
1 Samuel 13:9 event
Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.
1 Samuel 13:10 event
It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to m
1 Samuel 13:11 event
Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t
1 Samuel 13:13 event
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded
1 Samuel 13:15 event
Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six h
1 Samuel 13:16 mention
Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines e
1 Samuel 13:22 event
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who wer
1 Samuel 14:1 mention
Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, and let us go over
1 Samuel 14:2 mention
Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with
1 Samuel 14:16 mention
The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.
1 Samuel 14:17 event
Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When they had counted, beho
1 Samuel 14:18 mention
Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.
1 Samuel 14:19 event
While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said
1 Samuel 14:20 event
Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all stri
1 Samuel 14:21 event
Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before, and who went up with them into the camp, from all around, even the
1 Samuel 14:24 mention
The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any foo
1 Samuel 14:33 event
Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.” He s
1 Samuel 14:34 event
Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his shee
1 Samuel 14:35 event
Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.
1 Samuel 14:36 event
Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let
1 Samuel 14:37 event
Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But h
1 Samuel 14:38 event
Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
1 Samuel 14:40 event
Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” The people said t
1 Samuel 14:41 event
Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escape
1 Samuel 14:42 event
Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.” Jonathan was selected.
1 Samuel 14:43 event
Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little h
1 Samuel 14:44 event
Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”
1 Samuel 14:45 event
The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh live
1 Samuel 14:46 event
Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
1 Samuel 14:47 mention
Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and agai
1 Samuel 14:49 mention
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of th
1 Samuel 14:50 mention
The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ne
1 Samuel 14:51 mention
Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
1 Samuel 14:52 event
There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man,
1 Samuel 15:1 event
Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the
1 Samuel 15:4 mention
Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1 Samuel 15:5 event
Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
1 Samuel 15:6 mention
Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed k
1 Samuel 15:7 event
Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:9 mention
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and
1 Samuel 15:11 event
“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my co
1 Samuel 15:12 event
Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up
1 Samuel 15:13 event
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
1 Samuel 15:15 event
Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, t