1st Samuel Chapter 9 verse 11 Holy Bible
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?
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And when they were on the way up to the town, they saw some young girls going out to get water and said to them, Is the seer here?
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As they went up the ascent to the city, they met maidens going forth to draw water; and they said to them, Is the seer here?
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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?
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And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
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As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
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They are going up in the ascent of the city, and have found young women going out to draw water, and say to them, `Is the seer in this `place'?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 11, 12. - As they went up. Ramah was situated on a double hill, whence its name Ramathaim (1 Samuel 1:1). As, then, they go up the ascent - so the Hebrew, literally - they meet maidens on the way to the well, and ask them, Is the seer - the roeh - here? They answer, Yes; behold, he is before you. I.e. they are to go straightforward, and farther on in the town they will find him. He came today to the city. As Saul's servant knew that this city was Samuel's abode, the words must mean that he had just returned from visiting one of those places, probably, to which he was in the habit of going as judge. From 1 Samuel 16:2 we learn that Samuel went occasionally even to distant places to perform priestly duties. In the high place. Hebrew, Bamah. Samuel, we read, had built an altar at Ramah (1 Samuel 7:17), and probably the present sacrifice was to be offered upon it. Such altars, and the worship of the true God upon high places, were at this time recognised as right, and were, in fact, in accordance with, and were even the remains of, the old patriarchal religion. But gradually they were condemned, partly because of the glowing sanctity of the temple, but chiefly because of the tendency of religious rites celebrated in such places to degenerate into nature-worship, and orgies such as the heathen were in the habit of holding on the tops of mountains and hills. We thus find in the Bible an illustration of the principle that rites and ceremonies (as not being of the essentials of religion) may be changed, or even abolished, if they are abused, or lead on to evil consequences.
