1 Samuel 9:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ 6 And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be light, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that I may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out both of them, to wit, he and Samuel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And Saul said, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And is not my family the least of all the families of the clans of Benjamin? Why then do you speak this way to me?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou to me after this manner?

Common English Bible

²¹ “I’m a Benjaminite,” Saul responded, “from the smallest Israelite tribe, and my family is the littlest of the families in the tribe of Benjamin. Why would you say something like that to me?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And responding, Saul said: "Am I not a son of Benjamin, the least tribe of Israel, and are not my kindred the last among all the families from the tribe of Benjamin? So then, why would you speak this word to me?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And Saul answering said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me?

1 Samuel 9:21 Cross References

Psalm 68:27

4 give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power is in the clouds.

Psalm 68:28

5 God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.

Hosea 13:1

Destruction is thy own, 0 Israel: thy help is only in me.

Luke 14:11

9 And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused.

Ephesians 3:8

7 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

1 Samuel 10:27

And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabes.

1 Samuel 14:51

So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

1 Samuel 15:17

2 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 18:18

3 And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ears of David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the king's son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.

1 Samuel 18:23

8 And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And Michol the daughter of Saul loved him.

1 Samuel 9:22

7 And as they were going down in the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand thou still a while, that I may tell thee the word of the Lord.