He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water; it was toward evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
1 Samuel 9:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 As they went up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As they went up the hill to the city, they met young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? American Standard Version (1901) As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? Common English Bible They were going up the hill to the town when they met some young women coming out to draw water. “Is the seer here?” they asked them. Catholic Public Domain Version And as they were ascending the slope to the city, they found some young women going out to draw water. And they said to them, "Is the seer here?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when they went up the ascent to the city, they found maids coming out to draw water, and they said to them: Is the seer here? |
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water; it was toward evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, coming out with her water jar on her shoulder.
But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;
To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel. Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
Saul said to the young man, “Good; come, let us go.” So they went to the town where the man of God was.