1 Samuel 9:3

New Living Translation

One day Kish’s donkeys strayed away, and he told Saul, “Take a servant with you, and go look for the donkeys.”

Cross References

Judges 10:4

His thirty sons rode around on thirty donkeys, and they owned thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are still called the Towns of Jair.

Judges 5:10

“Consider this, you who ride on fine donkeys, you who sit on fancy saddle blankets, and you who walk along the road.

1 Samuel 10:14

“Where have you been?” Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant. “We were looking for the donkeys,” Saul replied, “but we couldn’t find them. So we went to Samuel to ask him where they were.”

1 Samuel 10:2

When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?’

1 Samuel 9:2

His son Saul was the most handsome man in Israel—head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the land.

1 Samuel 9:20

And don’t worry about those donkeys that were lost three days ago, for they have been found. And I am here to tell you that you and your family are the focus of all Israel’s hopes.”

1 Samuel 9:4

So Saul took one of the servants and traveled through the hill country of Ephraim, the land of Shalishah, the Shaalim area, and the entire land of Benjamin, but they couldn’t find the donkeys anywhere.