1 Samuel 9:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he passed through the land of Benjamin, but they did not find them.

Cross References

Genesis 33:18

Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

2 Kings 4:42

A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.”

John 3:23

John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim because water was abundant there, and people kept coming and were being baptized.

Joshua 19:42

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Joshua 24:33

Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of his son Phinehas, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 17:1

There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Judges 19:1

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

1 Samuel 1:1

There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 9:3

Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, had strayed. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the young men with you; go and look for the donkeys.”